From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-03-11T07:54:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Possibility of 2nd edition of _The Ruby Way_

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Dick Davies wrote:

> Hal Fulton wrote:
> > Hello, all.
> > 
> > There is some discussion about a second edition of _The Ruby Way_.
> > 
> > To that end, I'd like to have your thoughts about what needs to
> > change in it. (There's a significant amount.)
> > 
> > Let's address the largest changes first. Whole sections are likely
> > obsolete. Some were perhaps unimportant in the first place.
> > 
> > Example of a large change: REXML is probably the most common way
> > to process XML in Ruby. It didn't exist when TRW1 was conceived.
> 

> A YAML section would be good too.

i second that

> And maybe a mention of community changes (like RubyForge)?

and that

> I was going to ask for a fastcgi section, since I only discovered it last
> week. Then realized you already have one - star :)

and that too!  (man you are on the same wavelength

i'd add code samples/stuff from

  - optparse
  - logger
  - stringio
  - csv
  - mmap (unless too unix specific)
  - rbtree
  - pstore
  - pp

as i find all these to be really nice modules - but that's just me.  perhaps
you could set up a web vote for 'your favorite stdlib' and do the most popular
ones?

a section on rdoc'ing would be beneficial to the community


how about some real-world profiles?

-a
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