Comments on: Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:53 +0000

Hi Mike,

my book is definitely going to be focused on the Rails culture as much as it’ll be a Rails guide. Just to give you an idea, the first chapter has the Agile Manifesto in it. 🙂

The book will be available in December, so it’s a bit early to be listed in the Wrox “to be” titles, as far as I know. But this should change soon.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:56:10 +0000

Cool idea – RoR is totally alien to most VB guys I know. Are you going to explain the whole Rails culture (MVC, TTD, etc) or just explain how to build websites? Also, how come this book isn’t listed on the Wrox “to be” titles on their website? I may know some people who would be interested in pre-ordering.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:29:09 +0000

@Josh: Thanks. 🙂 The book will be published by Wrox in their Professional series, so there isn’t a specific Wrox series of books for Rails, even though they’ve already have published 3 other Rails titles.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:09:43 +0000

Antonio,

This idea looks great! I have been trying to convince my ASP.Net friends about Ruby on Rails for years now, but they can’t pull away from Winforms :-). Have you written any other Ruby on Rails for ???? books? Is this a new series you’re doing?

Looking forward to it!

By: Clarence Odbody

Clarence Odbody — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:28:07 +0000

Antonio,
I’ve seen your picture. Some good lighting and a little photoshop and you’ll be fine.

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:38:06 +0000

Hi Norman,

thanks for your comment. In the first chapter that I sent to my editor, I actually dedicated quite a bit of space to discuss a few popular editors and IDEs available. Ruby In Steel is amongst them (I even included a screenshot) and suggested that it’s one of the most friendly options for Microsoft developers. Perhaps I should cover the subject more within this blog, or even start one dedicated to the subject in support of the book. That would be neat. 🙂 I’ll consider both ideas.

By: Norman

Norman — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:10:32 +0000

I will be looking forward to your book. On thing you have made a little bit of mention of is Ruby on Steel but at some point would be interested to hear more of your thoughts.

I have tried using other Windows editors but have settled on Ruby on Steel due to misxed results otherwise. Just wondered as it seems to tie with Microsoft Developers.

By: Fabio Cevasco

Fabio Cevasco — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:49:44 +0000

This sounds like a very interesting and promising book. I’ll be looking forward to reading it and reviewing it!

Keep us posted!

By: Simone Brunozzi

Simone Brunozzi — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:12:38 +0000

Congrats, Antonio!
.NET is not exactly my passion, but I can guess it will be a great success!
Good luck (in bocca al lupo)!

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:59:36 +0000

Thanks Paolo, I’ll do my best. 🙂