From: christopher.j.meisenzahl@...
Date: 2002-11-15T21:33:55+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?

I agree strongly. I enjoyed the electronic version of the book (Pickaxe) I 
picked up the print version at Borders a couple of days ago. 

 
 
Christopher J. Meisenzahl CPS, CSTE
Senior Software Testing Consultant
Spherion
christopher.j.meisenzahl@citicorp.com



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> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:42 PM
> To: ruby-talk
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> Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?
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> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:25:20 +0900, Michael C. Libby wrote:
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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_
> > 
> > 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).
> 
> Well, I'm not interested in the GUI toolkits so those pages 
> remain unread. For me, Chapters 1 thru 5 were worth the price 
> of the book.
> 
> > 
> > My favorite Ruby book is the Pickaxe, especially since it's 
> licensed 
> > under
> > the OPL... even better that Dave and Andy made it available 
> as HTML. 
> > Having that as a resource during my first week of Ruby programming 
> > (without having to buy it) was invaluable-- without it I 
> wonder if I would 
> > have ever felt compelled to use Ruby when I was already 
> quite happy with 
> > Perl... this also led me to buy the book fairly quickly thereafter.
> > 
> > In fact, if other English-language Ruby books were licensed OPL and
> > available on the net, I would buy hardcopy just to show my 
> support-- even 
> > if they weren't as useful to me as the Pickaxe.
> > 
> 
> Good man! I think it's important to keep in mind that if we 
> want publishers to
> publish books about Ruby then we need to be buying books about Ruby. I
> think in general the folks at SAMS and Addison Wesley don't 
> care about the
> OPL as much as they care about the BUX. I want to encourage
> Dave/Andy/Hal/Matz/Lyle, et. al. to keep on thinking about Ruby, write
> down what they think, and then tell me what they figured out in a book
> that I can keep next to my keyboard.
> 
> 
> >  -michael
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