From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmobius@...>
Date: 2006-03-18T07:45:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Hacking Guide Translation

Thank you very much Vincent for your hard work on this, I have been  
waiting for someone to translate some of the great Japanes ruby textx  
out there. And thanks to Minero Aoki for allowing you to publish this  
work on the web,

Cheers-
-Ezra

On Mar 17, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Vincent Isambart wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce that I have translated in English the second
> chapter ("Objects") of the "Ruby Hacking Guide" by Minero AOKI. The
> Japanese name of the book is "Ruby kanzen soosu coodo kaisetsu" (that
> means "Ruby complete source code explanation"), but "Ruby Hacking
> Guide" was its working title and has more or less become its
> "official" English name.
>
> This book explains the internals of the ruby interpreter. And even if
> you do not care about how the interpreter works, I think it can help
> have a better understanding of Ruby and how to make extension
> libraries. To fully understand the content, you'll need to have a good
> knowledge of Ruby and C. And do not forget that Ruby is the language
> and ruby its implementation.
>
> Why the second chapter? Well, because I think it was the first chapter
> that we needed to have a translation of. The first chapter of the book
> is just a summary of the Ruby language. In English we already have the
> Pickaxe with its first edition freely available on the Web. And as
> translating takes a lot of time, I think it's better to select the
> most interesting ones. The chapter 4 and 6 are on the tracks.
>
> Be aware of the fact that I am far from being a professional
> translator, this translation was just a way for me to improve my
> knowledge of Ruby and the Japanese language. And English is not my
> mother tongue, so it takes a little longer for me to translate. But I
> think more people are interested in an English version ;). The English
> could be better but I prefer spending more time on the Japanese and
> let someone better than me correct my sentences.
>
> I would like to also use this mail to ask if anyone else is interested
> in translating the RHG in English. Minero AOKI told me he thinks that
> some other people may have begun translating on their side, and I
> think he may be right. So if you have started translating it or want
> to, do not hesitate to manifest yourself. Japanese people are of
> course welcome to join us. You do not even need to know Japanese to
> help: you can maybe check wording, grammar and spelling, or help us
> with the diagrams.
>
> I doubt that alone I would able to translate the whole book (it's 500
> pages long), but with some help, we should be able to at least
> translate a big part of it.
>
> Finally, I'd like to thank Minero AOKI for allowing me to post my
> translation of his book on the web. Thanks also to Laurent SANSONETTI
> for checking my translation, to Kouhei SUTOU for helping me understand
> some Japanese sentences, and to the Rubyforge guys for hosting us.
>
> Here's the address: http://rhg.rubyforge.org
>
> And for those who want the Japanese version, it's still available at
> http://i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/ (http://i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/book/ if
> you want to directly access the content).
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent "scritch" ISAMBART
>