From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T22:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: New! ObjectiveView Issue 9

On Sep 25, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:00:13 +0900
> "zoat" <enogrob@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Issue #9 of ObjectiveView [pdf], a highly respected on-line journal
>> has a sort of Ruby Special: lots of articles devoted to Ruby, and
>> Ruby on Rails.
>> http://www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html
>> http://www.ratio.co.uk/ov9pdf.pdf

This is very old news.  I'm not sure when the issue was released but  
the "Welcome to Issue 9" page has a February 2006 date at the bottom.

> As for the Ruby side of things, note that the article by Amy Hoy
> contains on or two deprecated uses within Ruby that ought not to have
> been allowed to propagate through.  (c.f. ''foo.type'' should be
> ''foo.class'').  Was she writing that article based on Ruby 1.6.X?
> Still, that aside, it ought to give your readership a little bit of an
> idea about Ruby.

Yes, I sent Amy a list of suggested improvements when the article was  
originally published.  I'm pretty sure she intended to post  
corrections on her blog, but I don't believe she ever got around to it:

http://www.slash7.com/articles/2006/3/2/a-not-so-objective-view-of-ruby

James Edward Gray II