From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-02-07T04:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Library (of books, not gems) Management in Ruby

On 2/6/07, Bira <u.alberton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a Ruby application for managing collections of books, CD's
> and "stuff" in general? I saw something similar written in Java (Data
> Crow) but it seemed a bit too heavy for my tastes. Searching for
> "library management" in Google gives me a bunch of links to Rubygems
> and other package managers, and I don't know what else to call it :).

Search blog entries on http://www.joelonsoftware.com

IIRC he had the same problem to manage his company's book library,
and wanted a program to do it. He was interested in bar code scanner
+ library of congress lookup stuff, and went through a couple of options
(including some commercial ware). I don't know if he found a solution,
but there may be blog comments that could direct your source.

As for specifically in Ruby, I doubt it. At the end of the day, its just a
simple Database, you could get clever by using a web service on the
library of congress, or web scraping their search results.