you nailed it.
btw, there are around a dozen ruby books in japanese. Anyone translating
them to english?
kind regards -botp
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Lyle Johnson [mailto:lyle.johnson@gmail.com] wrote:
In my opinion, books like "Programming Ruby" and "Ruby in a
Nutshell" do a fine job of documenting the basics of Ruby
programming. But when one moves on to more advanced topics
(if that's the right word), things like programming web
applications, GUIs, working with databases, etc. the
documentation starts to get spotty. You are correct that the
Ruby community is a helpful bunch, and that you can get most
of the help you need if you hang out on the mailing list or
IRC. But wouldn't it be swell to be able to go to the
bookstore and just buy "Developing Web Applications with
Ruby" rather than scavenging the web to try to piece together
all of the knowledge that you need?
* "Pe?a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> [0734 01:34]:
> In my opinion, books like "Programming Ruby" and "Ruby in a
> Nutshell" do a fine job of documenting the basics of Ruby
> programming. But when one moves on to more advanced topics
> (if that's the right word), things like programming web
> applications, GUIs, working with databases, etc. the
> documentation starts to get spotty.
Definitely, I've had big trouble trying to get my head round
ruby-ldap, and drb and webrick are two things that scream 'learn me'
but I have trouble getting my head around without a book.
btw, there are around a dozen ruby books in japanese. Anyone translating
them to english
You could just learn Japanese 
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Lyle Johnson [mailto:lyle.johnson@gmail.com] wrote:
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