From: Michael Genereux <mgenereu@...>
Date: 2006-02-15T17:33:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ADV]  Rails Recipes Beta Book now available

Dave Thomas wrote:
> This is  a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want 
> to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing 
> real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some 
> examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

I got the beta book and already love the advanced *and* real-world 
examples.  I would recommend a quite few more screenshots for us visual 
learners and, under Acrobat, the recipes are getting put in the 
bookmarks tree incorrectly.

As for topics, creation/manipulation of external content such as PDFs, 
images, graphing/charts, and OpenOffice/Word documents would be my cup 
of tea.  The articles like email attachments is in that line of 
thinking: "Oh great, with Rails, I now have all the data!  Now what do I 
do with it?"  Most programming books run from the lessons that involve 
multiple libraries as "out of scope" and this book specifically takes 
that challenge on.  Thanks!

I'm a little disappointed with some of the plugins/gems already 
requiring the Rails 1.1 platform for some of this but here's to hoping 
that's the norm soon enough.  ;-)

Michael