IOWA book ideas

Hi everybody.

Since I've received positive feedback on the idea of writing a book
about IOWA, I'm taking this a small step further.

What would you like to read about IOWA?
- Installation issues
  - When to run on what
    - apache and mod_ruby
    - apache and fastcgi
    - webrick
    - on a benchmark or usability level?
  - other?
- How the West was won
  - a real-life report about creating a website for
    managing mailserver configuration
  - providing multi-language content
    - anybody here with knowledge on how Japanese website layout
      differs from Western ways?
  - other?
- other?

Since we're talking about ruby-related material, I guess replying here
is ok. If you don't want publicity, you can also contact me privately,
the email adress is real, even if it does not look like it :slight_smile:

Let's collect some ideas and contact the prospective publisher
next week.

Kind regards,
s.

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

Hi everybody.

Since I've received positive feedback on the idea of
writing a book about IOWA, I'm taking this a small step
further.

What would you like to read about IOWA?
- Installation issues
  - When to run on what
    - apache and mod_ruby
    - apache and fastcgi
    - webrick
    - on a benchmark or usability level?
  - other?
- How the West was won
  - a real-life report about creating a website for
    managing mailserver configuration
  - providing multi-language content
    - anybody here with knowledge on how Japanese website
      layout differs from Western ways?
  - other?
- other?

Since we're talking about ruby-related material, I guess
replying here is ok. If you don't want publicity, you can
also contact me privately, the email adress is real, even
if it does not look like it :slight_smile:

Let's collect some ideas and contact the prospective
publisher
next week.

Kind regards,
s.

What's IOWA?

I would be interested in hearing a really basic paragraph summary of
all sorts of cool Ruby toolkits and the comparisons with
like/competitive systems. I've vaguely heard of Copland, IOWA,
Needle, Rails, Red/Blue/NoYellowCloth so on. All I have experience
with is Rails, and I know there are some sweet things out there to
play with. Ruby seems to collecting clean, powerful toolkits in the
same way other languages tend to collect bindings and modules -- which
I find pretty cool. But finding them is the hard part, they are
alien. Stuff like this really needs a link at ruby-lang.com, highly
visible, something like "Cool Things That Might Involve Ducks".

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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 05:32:26 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joe.vandyk@boeing.com> wrote:

Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> Hi everybody.
>
> Since I've received positive feedback on the idea of
> writing a book about IOWA, I'm taking this a small step
> further.
>
> What would you like to read about IOWA?
> - Installation issues
> - When to run on what
> - apache and mod_ruby
> - apache and fastcgi
> - webrick
> - on a benchmark or usability level?
> - other?
> - How the West was won
> - a real-life report about creating a website for
> managing mailserver configuration
> - providing multi-language content
> - anybody here with knowledge on how Japanese website
> layout differs from Western ways?
> - other?
> - other?
>
> Since we're talking about ruby-related material, I guess
> replying here is ok. If you don't want publicity, you can
> also contact me privately, the email adress is real, even
> if it does not look like it :slight_smile:
>
> Let's collect some ideas and contact the prospective
> publisher
> next week.
>
> Kind regards,
> s.

What's IOWA?

Integrated Objects for Web Applications
Take a look at
   http://enigo.com/projects/iowa/index.html

HTH
s.

They need html docs too. For example, Nitro has very little online docs. I
want to get a feel for something before I download it.

T.

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On Friday 10 December 2004 03:45 pm, Michael DeHaan wrote:

I would be interested in hearing a really basic paragraph summary of
all sorts of cool Ruby toolkits and the comparisons with
like/competitive systems. I've vaguely heard of Copland, IOWA,
Needle, Rails, Red/Blue/NoYellowCloth so on. All I have experience
with is Rails, and I know there are some sweet things out there to
play with. Ruby seems to collecting clean, powerful toolkits in the
same way other languages tend to collect bindings and modules -- which
I find pretty cool. But finding them is the hard part, they are
alien. Stuff like this really needs a link at ruby-lang.com, highly
visible, something like "Cool Things That Might Involve Ducks".