Considering writing a book on Ruby/Rails?

What I want is a book on Cerberus, a book on RSpec, a book on
Selenium, Watir/Firewatir, etc. I know what these things can do, and I
want to know how to get started doing them without having to decode RDoc
and ri files!

I hear rumors about such things from time to time. They may happen.

Until then, use the Peepcode screencasts for RSpec - there’s three. He
covers everything from the basics up to custom matchers. He stops
short of Story Runner, but Pat M. did a screencast on Story
Runner. It’s basically four hours of video training total. Pat’s
screencast is free and the Peepcode ones are cheap. I put them on my
iPod for workouts.

Also, personally, I are teh scuk when it comes to TDD, it’s absolutely
my worst point as a developer, so I’m going to the Pragmatic Studio on
TDD with Rails. I think I actually know on an intellectual level a lot
of the stuff they’ll be teaching, but it’ll be good to have it
properly ironed into my brain.


Giles B.

Blog: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.gilesgoatboy.org
Tumblelog: http://giles.tumblr.com/

Honestly, I don’t care what anybody thinks about book ideas or
suggestions!
The whole point of the post is to get the ideas brewing, to get
people seriously considering the possibilities and hopefully doing it.
Videos/screencasts/podcasts (ideally with accompanying files) are
also appropriate for some topics (some more so than others).

Whatever it takes, I really just want everybody to remain proactive
about promoting Ruby (and Rails).
With the upcoming Ruby 2.0 (and Rails 2.0) there should be plenty of
book/video/podcast material.
The more we promote Ruby (and Rails) AND libs and modules and
frameworks in Ruby, the more we promote ourselves, but more
importantly, the more we make our own programming easier and more
enjoyable!

Keep those ideas coming!