From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2008-05-16T01:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: The Book Of Ruby - Free eBook

Just to clarify the 'level'... while it starts right at the beginning 
('hello world'), The Book Of Ruby moves fairly rapidly onto topics that 
could be categorized as 'intermediate to advanced'. Also, from chapter 2 
onwards, each chapter comes with a section called 'Digging Deeper'. In 
this section I will often go into some of the more arcane reaches of 
Ruby - things that even fairly experienced Ruby programmers may not know 
about. The only reason *I* know about some of these is that we have had 
to provide deep support for Ruby in our IDE, and that means that we have 
had to deal with all kinds of 'special cases' in order to get our 
Intellisense, debugging etc. to work correctly and reliably. As a 
consequence, I have spent a lot of time exploring the 'outer reaches' of 
Ruby.

The book will cover all the main subject areas: OOP, blocks, mixins, 
regex, exception handling, singletons, threads, loops and iterators, 
scoping, IO, dynamic (meta)programming etc. etc.

If anyone has any questions or wants to open up the discussion on 
specific subjects, please feel free either to comment on the blog or to 
join the forum and start threads in the Ruby section: 
http://sapphiresteel.com/forum/

best wishes
Huw

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.