[ruby-talk:02471] Re: Book writer wanted

Hi,

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto
> A publisher agent contacted me about another Ruby book.  Of course I
> can not write book in English.  He wanted to find somebody.  I was asked
> to look in this list.  Anybody?
>
> Qualification:
>
>   Fluent(?) English ability
>   Preferably living in the states
>   Knows deeply about Ruby
>   Better not writing another book on Ruby ;-)

Seems like they might also need at least 2 people to meet those
requirements.

Are they willing to do an open source book, as it were?

Rather than reinvent a nearly completed wheel--which will be a rather hard
act to follow, IMHO--maybe they should do a "Ruby Cookbook", hitting the
primary topic areas in the popular "Perl Cookbook" and "Object Oriented
Perl". The ruby-talk mail archive and the Ruby Application Archive source
code also contains a rich source of Ruby programming idioms to mine.

They could use also comp.lang.ruby (-: #### vote now! #### :-) to solicit
feedback on 2 or 3 or 4 important topics selected from the above sources per
day.

Conrad