From: pat eyler <pat.eyler@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T06:47:16+09:00
Subject: Advanced Ruby Book (was [ANN] Forthcoming 2nd ed. of _The Ruby Way_)

On 12/15/05, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> > We really need an advanced Ruby book now.
>
> Shifting the focus of the thread a little bit, but what would your
> idea table of contents look like in an Advanced Ruby book?
>

I can't speak to order either, but I'd love to see a chapter on
Profiling and Optimizing Ruby.


> Off the top of my head randomly ordered:
>
> * Variable Scope
> * Regular Expressions
> * Unit Testing
> * Module
> * Class
> * Metaprogramming
> * Domain Specific Languages
> * Continuations
> * Threads and Processes
> * Extensions
> * Embedding Ruby
>
> pth
>
>