From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T01:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Cookbook review

On 12/21/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A few days ago there was a request for the review of the RC. I guess I
> am kind of late to the party, but since I promised I will post it here
> when I am ready, here we go:
>
> http://www.rubyrailways.com/book-review-ruby-cookbook/
>

That was me Peter. Good write up too. I liked how you factored in
the other A-list Ruby books, and in particular where you described
the niche for Ruby Cookbook right here:

"After reading these books I wanted to jump into writing some cool
stuff - Ruby seemed to be so elegant, easy, succinct - and to my
greatest surprise, I could not write too much sensible code :-) (at
least not without referring to these books and/or google and/or
ruby-talk more frequently that I considered o.k. to call it
programming on my own)."

This pretty much captured my mindset - "I like this Ruby thing, but now I want
to *Do Stuff*".

Excellent in-depth review. The depth matters in the context of this
book I think,
more-so than many of the general books.