From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-03-27T08:12:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and RoR Book Roundup

jzakiya@mail.com wrote:
> I'm glad to see an increasing proliferation of Rubyish books but
> was wondering when there will be a Ruby For Dummies. While
> browsing  bookstores the "Dummies" series have become very
> prominate now in the software field, and the quality of many of
> them are the antithesis of being for dummies. The recent edition
> of "Firefox For Dummies" by Blake Ross (www.blakeross.com),
> one of the major developers of the Firefox browser, elegantly makes
> that point, as that edition is highly inciteful and cogently written.
> 
> Though there are, and will be even more, intelligently written and
> usesful Ruby books, from just a pure marketing point of view, it
> would seem a "Ruby For Dummies" would represent somewhat
> of a tipping point in the mainstreamnig of Ruby, at least in the minds
> of the publishing community, and make Ruby just that more accessible
> to the neophyte Joe/Jane to give it a try.
> 
> Since Ruby has already had the O'Reilly treatment once ("Ruby In A
> Nutshell" by Matz) can "Ruby For Dummies" be far behind?
> 
> Anybody know how to make this happen?


Just my opinion.

I would write that book in four words. Page 1 would
say, "Ruby isn't for dummies."

The rest of the pages would be blank, for taking notes.


Cheers,
Hal