From: Sam Roberts Date: 2004-03-23T03:41:59+09:00 Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II Wrote "Zachary P. Landau" , on Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:21:04AM +0900: > > In its place, if you put a chapter on racc, on rexml, on webrick, on > > soap4r, etc., tutorial style stuff on how to do useful things, that's > > the kind of thing that I don't know will get done in the std lib > > documentation, and I would be happy to buy and be able to read on my > > couch, whereas it looks like the doc team (yeah team!) are doing good > > work in getting the per-API docs in better shape. > > > > I'm not sure I agree with this. Programming Ruby fits very well as an > introduction (and then reference) to the language itself. I think having > in-depth examples of how to use libraries is a job for another book But Programming Ruby V1 already has chapters such as I suggest! ch 14, ruby and the web (covers CGI and eruby, and integration in Apache) ch 15, ruby tk ch 16, ruby and windows (WIN32OLE, ...) Cheers, Sam -- Sam Roberts