From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-11-15T00:31:41+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?

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From: "Michael C. Libby" <m_libby@andsoforth.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?


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> On Wednesday 13 November 2002 09:57, Tim Hunter wrote:
> > If you're a serious Ruby developer, you'll need _The Ruby Way_
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> Can you explain this further? Maybe I'm not serious enough about Ruby 
> development, but I've taken several ganders at "The Ruby Way" and didn't 
> feel compelled to buy it because it lacked depth in many of the areas 
> where I'd have wanted it the most (the GUI toolkits sections are 
> particularly light, imho).

It was meant to be broad rather than deep. That's
just a design decision that you may not agree 
with.

You might try _The Ruby Developer's Guide_ as an
alternative, but I don't think any books out there
go very deeply into GUI issues.

Hal Fulton