From: Dave Thomas Date: 2002-08-15T07:00:20+09:00 Subject: Re: A few newbie questions... "Alan F Lundin" writes: > * Lyle Johnson (lyle@users.sourceforge.net) [020814 13:03]: > * Subject: Re: A few newbie questions...: > > Bennett, Patrick wrote: > > > > > If you're getting started, the PickAxe book is definitely the > > > best place to start (at least it was for me). > > > > Just to clarify (for Christopher): The "PickAxe Book" that people refer > > to now and again is "Programming Ruby", by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt. > > Patrick is correct that this is a must-have for beginning Ruby > > programmers (and non-beginners, for that matter ;) > > Speaking of the "PickAxe Book", how much is missing > from the on-line version? (I've noticed that a lot > of chapter 18 is not there.) That's a wee production problem: Ruby changed, and some of the sample code no longer compiles. As the code gets compiled and executed every time we format the book (because we wanted to make sure the code in the book was accurate), the formatting stops at that point. I need to go through and update the code, but to do that I also need to get AWL to agree to a fairly large page change set at the next printing. Dave