From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T23:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II


On Mar 23, 2004, at 7:41, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:
>

> Anyhow, I like the general direction Dave's pointing out for this 
> edition, because there's a lot of good stuff in the standard library 
> that folks don't even know about, but it would be overkill to 
> comprehensively document all of it in the same book. OTOH, I'd love it 
> if some of the most useful, general purpose libraries had good, 
> comprehensive API documentation in the style of the original Pickaxe. 
> Things like WEBrick, Test::Unit, DRb, optparse, etc., that mailing 
> list traffic show are being used on a regular basis.
>

The new version has an entire chapter on Test::Unit :)

> Oh, and mostly unrelated: I hope this edition uses under_score 
> notation instead of camelCase. I know I was led astray by the Pickaxe 
> in my early days of Ruby programming :-/

Yup - I spend a wonderful couple of days going through and changing 
these. We guessed, but we got it wrong :)


Cheers

Dave