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On 12/15/05, Patrick Hurley <> wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <> wrote:
> > We really need an advanced Ruby book now.
>
> Shifting the focus of the thread a little bit, but what would your
> idea table of contents look like in an Advanced Ruby book?
>

I can't speak to order either, but I'd love to see a chapter on
Profiling and Optimizing Ruby.


> Off the top of my head randomly ordered:
>
> * Variable Scope
> * Regular Expressions
> * Unit Testing
> * Module
> * Class
> * Metaprogramming
> * Domain Specific Languages
> * Continuations
> * Threads and Processes
> * Extensions
> * Embedding Ruby
>
> pth
>
>

pat eyler <> wrote:
> On 12/15/05, Patrick Hurley <> wrote:
> > On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <> wrote:
> > > We really need an advanced Ruby book now.
> >
> > Shifting the focus of the thread a little bit, but what would your
> > idea table of contents look like in an Advanced Ruby book?
> >
>
> I can't speak to order either, but I'd love to see a chapter on
> Profiling and Optimizing Ruby.

And one on distribution and IPC in the most general sense (Drb, shared
memory, clusters, communicating with other programs, client/server
architectures, etc)

martin

In article <6fd0654b0512151347v3c5558f4ye7546cfe04db61c5@mail .gmail.com>,
pat eyler <> wrote:
>On 12/15/05, Patrick Hurley <> wrote:
>> On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <> wrote:
>> > We really need an advanced Ruby book now.
>>
>> Shifting the focus of the thread a little bit, but what would your
>> idea table of contents look like in an Advanced Ruby book?
>>
>
>I can't speak to order either, but I'd love to see a chapter on
>Profiling and Optimizing Ruby.
>
>
>> Off the top of my head randomly ordered:
>>
>> * Variable Scope
>> * Regular Expressions
>> * Unit Testing
>> * Module
>> * Class
>> * Metaprogramming
>> * Domain Specific Languages
>> * Continuations
>> * Threads and Processes
>> * Extensions
>> * Embedding Ruby
>>

good list.
I'd include a chapter on "Functional Ruby" or "Higher order Ruby"

I'm not sure I'd include Unit Testing as it is covered in "Programming Ruby".

Also an inheritance diagram showing the relationship between Class, Module,
Object, Kernel, etc. would be good.


Phil

On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <> wrote:
> good list.
> I'd include a chapter on "Functional Ruby" or "Higher order Ruby"
>
> I'm not sure I'd include Unit Testing as it is covered in "Programming Ru=
by".

I'd love to see a more in-depth look at unit testing. (In fact, it wouldn=
't
be a bad thing to see a pocket reference sized piece.)


>
> Also an inheritance diagram showing the relationship between Class, Modul=
e,
> Object, Kernel, etc. would be good.
>
>
> Phil
>
>


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thanks,
-pate
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On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:04 PM, pat eyler wrote:

> On 12/15/05, Phil Tomson <> wrote:
>> good list.
>> I'd include a chapter on "Functional Ruby" or "Higher order Ruby"
>>
>> I'm not sure I'd include Unit Testing as it is covered in
>> "Programming Ruby".
>
> I'd love to see a more in-depth look at unit testing. (In fact,
> it wouldn't
> be a bad thing to see a pocket reference sized piece.)

Yeah, the Prags have a Java and C# version of their volume don't
they? A Ruby version would be excellent.

James Edward Gray II

On 12/20/05, Dave Thomas <> wrote:
>
>
>

Well, that was succinct, but I'm not quite sure what you wanted
to say...

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