Comments on: This Week in Ruby (May 5, 2008) https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/ Meditations on programming, startups, and technology Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:14:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: adit https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-4239 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:14:24 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-4239 thank’s for the info about rails new book

will looking forward for it

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3751 Tue, 20 May 2008 14:30:33 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3751 Thanks Diablog. WordPress hit again. 🙂

]]> By: Diabolo https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3750 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:02:32 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3750 Re last comment – should have read link has a br tag included in it.

]]> By: Diabolo https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3749 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:00:42 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3749 Bad Url in article

“While Jim Neath, published Using Capistrano with Passenger (mod_rails).”

Link has a “” included in it

Thanks for gr8 read 🙂

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3647 Wed, 07 May 2008 23:31:22 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3647 Don’t worry Paolo, I’m reviewing a Django book for a different publisher (AW) and I plan to discuss Django in the near future. 🙂

]]> By: Paolo https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3646 Wed, 07 May 2008 22:20:31 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3646 Antonio, since you are writing the Rails book you are not writing anymore about Django 🙁

]]> By: Antonio Cangiano https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3642 Wed, 07 May 2008 10:33:58 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3642 @Sam Smoot: Agreed, it’s not a race between the two.

]]> By: Sam Smoot https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3635 Tue, 06 May 2008 23:56:11 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3635 I’m not too worried about competing with ActiveRecord to be honest.

…and I think DM’s popularity is probably limited by the pain of getting it running smoothly in the past. I don’t expect that to be an issue very soon now, so I’ll be happy to see it grow slowly and purposefully.

]]> By: Ted https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3631 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:14:28 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3631 @austin_web_developer — I’m the author of the Art of Rails, and I couldn’t agree with you more about the free chapter thing. Unfortunately it comes down to the contract that authors have to sign with the publisher a lot of times.. it prevents us from giving away large portions of the book without their authorization.

One way to get around it is by blogging about the contents of the book, which lets you slip in some of the good bits without giving away so much the publisher gets mad.

On the topic of online books — you should check out Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Peep Code. The screencasts and PDF books aren’t free, but they are affordable ($9.00) and really well done.

]]> By: austin_web_developer https://programmingzen.com/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3626 Tue, 06 May 2008 04:36:12 +0000 http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/05/this-week-in-ruby-may-5-2008/#comment-3626 I wish a lot of these book authors would follow the sitepoint model and give away one or two free book chapters.
I’ll have to wait for this (the Art of Rails) to hit the bookshelves at Barnes and Nobles, so I can get a chance to check it out.

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