From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T03:10:33+09:00
Subject: Re: A Ruby/Rails bibliography

Hi --

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, John Joyce wrote:

> As for the book, Ruby by example is a nice book. It covers a variety of 
> interesting topics. The sad part is that it doesn't go deeply into any of 
> them. The only thing that's kept me from rushing to add it to my Ruby library 
> is that it doesn't go deep.
>
> I'm still waiting for books that introduce topics from Ruby completely.
> I'd love to see a CGI book that is all through Ruby.  ( for example ) Rather 
> than needing a Perl book to learn the Ruby

I believe that three of the books in this picture:

http://www.pablotron.com/gallery/20021101-rubyconf2002/?g_show=1&g_ofs=28&g_num=1

are CGI books, though I can only spot "CGI" in two of the titles.
Anyway, that was 2002, so they may not still be in print -- and you'd
have to learn Japanese :-)

But it's all to say that, as with so many things in the Ruby world,
lots has already happened in Japan even though outside of Japan it's
sometimes hard to pick up on. I too hope that there will be lots of
books, in many languages, along the lines of "XYZ with Ruby".


David

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