[ANN] B1.03 of Programming Ruby now available

[Dave Thomas]

I'll keep it brief

* Updated through the end of "Ruby in its Setting".
* Includes a new chapter on Ruby 1.9's character encoding support.
* removed libraries no longer in 1.9
* Chapter One lists the major changes this release.

Existing owners update from your account page at http://pragprog.com/my_account
(create an account if you don't already have one--creating an order
doesn't automatically create an account).

More details at http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3


Cheers


Dave

 

[Bil Kleb]

More details at http://pragprog.com/titles/ruby3

Laziness request: can the gerbils spit out a more descriptive
PDF filename? Especially, helpful would be one with the current
version tacked on the end, e.g., ProgrammingRuby3e-b1.03.pdf
instead of the same ruby3-p-00.pdf each time.

Regards,

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Laziness request: can the gerbils spit out a more descriptive
PDF filename? Especially, helpful would be one with the current
version tacked on the end, e.g., ProgrammingRuby3e-b1.03.pdf
instead of the same ruby3-p-00.pdf each time.

Regards,

Sheesh ... isn't it enough the gerbils are porting all their gerbil gems
to Ruby 1.9?

 

[Dave Thomas]

Laziness request: can the gerbils spit out a more descriptive
PDF filename? Especially, helpful would be one with the current
version tacked on the end, e.g., ProgrammingRuby3e-b1.03.pdf
instead of the same ruby3-p-00.pdf each time.

Bil:

Cool idea to add the version number in. My only problem is working out
how not to invalidate the currently generated PDF names. Let me mull
it over.


Dave

 

[Rick DeNatale]

Laziness request: can the gerbils spit out a more descriptive
PDF filename? Especially, helpful would be one with the current
version tacked on the end, e.g., ProgrammingRuby3e-b1.03.pdf
instead of the same ruby3-p-00.pdf each time.

A packrat are you Bil? <G>

 

[Bil Kleb]

A packrat are you Bil? <G>

Guilty, but only one level deep.

Say I read part way through b1.01, then b1.02 comes out. I need
to save the previous for a comparison of what's changed since last
time and to find my new starting point.

Regards,