From: markusjais@...
Date: 2006-09-27T18:37:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] New version of AWDwR available

hi Dave

thank you. the new edition is awesome. a great book got even better.

Markus

Dave Thomas wrote:

> 
> I've uploaded the B1.12 version of AWDwR.
> 
> The major changes include:
> 
> - Justin Gehtland's new chapter on Web 2.0
> 
> - James Duncan Davisdon's chapter on deployment (this is an
>    interesting one---JDD has strong opinions on how a Rails
>    application should be deployed, and the chapter mirrors this.
>    You'll find it short and easy to follow).
> 
> - I changed the Resource-based routing section to use the new
>    scaffold_resources generator
> 
> - it fixes a number of reported errata and includes a bunch
>    of suggestions. To find out what's changed, go to
>    http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails2/errata and select
>    the version of the book you currently own in the dropdown.
>    The grayed-out entries that appear are the ones that have been
>    fixed in the new version.
> 
> As usual, the update is available for free from
> 
>     http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rails2/reorder
> 
> Enter just two of the three pieces of information to identify your PDF.
> I recommend using your order number and your email address, as these
> tend
> to be be the most consistent.
> 
> A note on errata: please do keep them coming in. However, as I'll be
> rewriting the chapters from the first edition (the ones with the gray
> headers and footers) you might not want to stress too much about things
> you find in these. Also, errata about bad page breaks and missing cross
> references will be silently but brutally deleted, simply because that
> kind of stuff is not really important until we come to finish the book.
> Similarly, the entire index will be reworked when the book is finished,
> so reporting missing index entries probably won't help much...
> 
> Thanks for your support for this project. Keep the comments
> coming in.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Dave Thomas