Ruby documentation.

[Gavin Sinclair]

"The documentation itself has been created by Gavin Sinclair, William
Webber, Lyle Johnson, and library authors. Individual library files
usually have code and documentation credits."

Oops, I gotta update that statement; there's been a few other
contributors in the last, oh... year?

Gavin

 

[James Britt]

Oops, I gotta update that statement; there's been a few other
contributors in the last, oh... year?

Has anything new in PickAxe II found a place in the core or stdlib docs?

James

 

[Dave Thomas]

For Ruby 2 and Pickaxe III, I'd really like to see a high quality
Hardback
special edition!

You you pay $10 more for it? We decided not to go hardcover because we
felt the market is fairly price sensitive. It's fairly easy to change,
but the price (both of the book and shipping) would increase.



Cheers

Dave

 

[Dave Thomas]

bout the Socket stuff. I always wondered why there was documentation
about BasicSocket, Socket, TCPSocket and so on since the first version
of the pickaxe, but it never flew into ri. Is it just the lack of
someone contributing a doumentation patch ?

That's about it. Be careful though--some stuff has changed in socket
since PA1

Cheers

Dave

 

[Dave Thomas]

Has anything new in PickAxe II found a place in the core or stdlib
docs?

I contributed _all_ of the core documentation from the initial version
if Pickaxe II. It's in the source. Several folks helped enter and
reformat it. I now leave it in the capable hands of the Ruby core team
and the RDP to keep it up to date.


Cheers

Dave

 

[James Britt]

I contributed _all_ of the core documentation from the initial version
if Pickaxe II.

Many thanks.


James

 

[Michael Vondung]

You you pay $10 more for it? We decided not to go hardcover because we
felt the market is fairly price sensitive.

I would. IT books are expensive anyway, so an additional ten bucks
wouldn't matter to me. Not if it's a book that I use for a long time.

M.

 

[John Wilger]

You you pay $10 more for it? We decided not to go hardcover because we
felt the market is fairly price sensitive. It's fairly easy to change,
but the price (both of the book and shipping) would increase.

I tell you what I'd pay $10-$20 more for is an edition with a
hardcover _and_ wire spiral binding so that it can be opened and lay
flat on the desk. I wish more programming guides would come this way;
it's really hard to type while you're holding a book open. ;-)

--
Regards,
John Wilger

-----------
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

 

[Dave Thomas]

I tell you what I'd pay $10-$20 more for is an edition with a
hardcover _and_ wire spiral binding so that it can be opened and lay
flat on the desk. I wish more programming guides would come this way;
it's really hard to type while you're holding a book open. ;-)

Wire binding would be nice. In the meantime, PickAxe 2 does have a
layflat soft cover binding (we paid extra for it, so I know . The
copy I'm using here actually does stay open with no help from Chapter 1
through Appendix A.


Cheers

Dave

 

[John Wilger]

Wire binding would be nice. In the meantime, PickAxe 2 does have a
layflat soft cover binding (we paid extra for it, so I know . The
copy I'm using here actually does stay open with no help from Chapter 1
through Appendix A.

Sadly, that wasn't my experience. :-( (Don't take that as a complaint
about the book, though.)

--
Regards,
John Wilger

-----------
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

 

[Nicholas Van Weerdenburg]

Sadly, that wasn't my experience. :-( (Don't take that as a complaint
about the book, though.)



--
Regards,
John Wilger

-----------
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

I tried it after reading this. I had to press down a bit, to "break it
in", but then the book lay open flat. I think after a bit of use, it
should do it naturally.

Regards,
Nick