Ruby's book list is out of date...

[Jeremy McAnally]

Hello all,
I was snooping about the Ruby site the other day (OK, like two weeks
ago) when I got bored, and I noticed the book page is out of date. I
e-mailed the webmaster e-mail address, but nothing has changed.

1) From Java to Ruby is out now (rather than Coming Soon).
2) Ruby Phrasebook is also out.
3) Rails Cookbook looks to be out also.
4) Ruby Quickly has changed to Hacking with Ruby which is probably
changing again...
5) There are a number of books that are coming soon and new in print
that aren't on there (e.g., the PragProg's Paypal+Ruby book, my Ruby
book, Apress's complete Ruby/Rails line other than Beginning Ruby,
Rails for Java Developers...).

Who maintains this section? I can e-mail them directly if that would
be more helpful.

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[Keith Fahlgren]

3) Rails Cookbook looks to be out also.

Nearly, it goes to the printer in mid December so should be in
bookstores before too long.

HTH,
Keith

 

[James Edward Gray II]

I was snooping about the Ruby site the other day (OK, like two weeks
ago) when I got bored, and I noticed the book page is out of date.
OK.

1) From Java to Ruby is out now (rather than Coming Soon).
2) Ruby Phrasebook is also out.
4) Ruby Quickly has changed to Hacking with Ruby which is probably
changing again...

I have addressed these.

5) There are a number of books that are coming soon and new in print
that aren't on there (e.g., the PragProg's Paypal+Ruby book, my Ruby
book, Apress's complete Ruby/Rails line other than Beginning Ruby,
Rails for Java Developers...).

Email me the books you would like added and where. I'll get them in
there. Please view the page source and send them to me in that
format, so I can dump them right in.

Thanks.

James Edward Gray II

 

[pat eyler]

Is it really? I've not seen it yet, and amazon says January.

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Is it really? I've not seen it yet, and amazon says January.

I assume Jeremy meant it's now available as a Rough Cut:

http://safari.samspublishing.com/0768666759

James Edward Gray II

 

[pat eyler]

I assume Jeremy meant it's now available as a Rough Cut:

http://safari.samspublishing.com/0768666759

Aahh. Good enough then. (I'm still looking forward to grabbing a
paper copy, I like the phrasebook format.)

 

[James Britt]

Hello all,
I was snooping about the Ruby site the other day (OK, like two weeks
ago) when I got bored, and I noticed the book page is out of date. I
e-mailed the webmaster e-mail address, but nothing has changed.

ruby-doc.org has maintained a book list for a while now:

http://ruby-doc.org/bookstore


If folks are aware of Ruby books not listed, please let me know.

 

[Bil Kleb]

ruby-doc.org has maintained a book list for a while now:

Is there a way to apply the DRY principle for these two?

Later,

 

[James Britt]

Is there a way to apply the DRY principle for these two?

Think of it as RARR:

Redundant array of Ruby resources.



--
James Britt

"I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion
out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be
solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!"
- Edsger Dijkstra

 

[James Edward Gray II]

Think of it as RARR:

Redundant array of Ruby resources.

It does seem like a needless duplication of effort. I'l ask the ruby-
lang team if we can just forward to the ruby-doc page...

James Edward Gray II

 

[Jeremy McAnally]

It does seem like a needless duplication of effort. I'l ask the ruby-

lang team if we can just forward to the ruby-doc page...

That may work, except that many books won't fit into their current
format because they are PDF-only or self-published. Unless, of
course, they're willing to tweak that page to make it usable for those
sorts of books also?

I'll get that list in whatever format it needs to happen in on Monday;
you guys just let me know what you need or what site to format it
around.

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[James Edward Gray II]

I'll get that list in whatever format it needs to happen in on Monday;
you guys just let me know what you need or what site to format it
around.

Ruby-lang.org now points to the list to ruby-doc.org, so please send
them your requested changes.

James Edward Gray II

 

[Jeremy McAnally]

Hi James,
You didn't update the sidebar, so when users click on that to get to
the books list, they get a 404. The other link on the documentation
page works great, though.

I'll contact the RubyDoc folks today; thanks.

--Jeremy

 

[James Edward Gray II]

You didn't update the sidebar, so when users click on that to get to
the books list, they get a 404. The other link on the documentation
page works great, though.

Good catch. Sorry about that. It's fixed now.

James Edward Gray II