# IronRuby in Action cancelled **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [February 27, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793 "2011-02-27T17:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/1 "2011-02-27T17:41:52Z")
I got a message from Manning today telling me I could get a refund/replacement for IronRuby in Action since it was cancelled. Anyone know the reason why it was cancelled? It looked practically done to me. ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/2 "2011-02-27T18:29:02Z")
I won’t go in too deep on the reasons why but in the end I ran out time basically and lack of interest. The entire explanation is quite lengthy. Anyway I’m finding out who owns the actual IP rights now. But the last time Manning asked I told them that in an ideal situation this book would be a gift to the ironruby community, shared under a creative commons license. if it turns out that manning is planning to make the pdf available for download then fine. if it turns out that I have the rights to the content then I’ll make the raw word documents available as a pdf book. Cheers Ivan ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/3 "2011-02-27T18:49:28Z")
> I got a message from Manning today telling me I could get a > refund/replacement for IronRuby in Action since it was cancelled. > > Anyone know the reason why it was cancelled? It looked practically done to > me. Ivan told me it’s cancelled indeed - he will likely make an announcement later on here. – Thibaut ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 11:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/4 "2011-02-28T11:34:14Z")
I enjoyed following the book’s progress. Thank you for writing it. All the interactions I’ve had as a customer with Manning tells me they’ll do the right thing. I hope we’ll see the book out in the near future 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/5 "2011-03-01T15:01:21Z")
Pity to hear of the cancellation, good luck to your subsequent pursuits Ivan! Having written myself as unpaid “Community Contribution” the Chaper 10, “Transforming a legacy GUI to WPF and IronRuby”, I guess I own enough IP on that to hereby donate it (attached) to the public domain. I hope you or Manning will release rest of the book in some form. Robert J. Brotherus > **[Home – NAPA](https://www.napa.fi/)** > > NAPA provides intelligent solutions for maritime industry: Software, Services and Data Analysis for Ship Design and Operation. We combine naval architecture, shipping and digital expertise to help maritime business make the decisions that matter. * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid on behalf of Ivan Porto carrero Sent: Sun 2/27/2011 7:29 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby in Action cancelled I won’t go in too deep on the reasons why but in the end I ran out time basically and lack of interest. The entire explanation is quite lengthy. Anyway I’m finding out who owns the actual IP rights now. But the last time Manning asked I told them that in an ideal situation this book would be a gift to the ironruby community, shared under a creative commons license. if it turns out that manning is planning to make the pdf available for download then fine. if it turns out that I have the rights to the content then I’ll make the raw word documents available as a pdf book. Cheers Ivan – Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/6 "2011-03-18T11:39:51Z")
Was waiting for this book from a long time. But what we can say. Good look to you for ahead. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/7 "2011-02-27T20:52:41Z")
That is very generous of you Ivan, hope it works out. ~Jimmy On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Ivan Porto carrero ---
**Author:** ![rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rambor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rambor)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ironruby-in-action-cancelled/203793/8 "2011-04-07T22:11:17Z")
I was briefly involved at one point too… turns out writing a book is very hard. Thanks for all your hard work Ivan, hope you get to share it with us! On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:39 AM, gaurav s. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Was waiting for this book from a long time. > But what we can say. Good look to you for ahead. 🙂 > > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). > > * * * > > Ironruby-core mailing list > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core) – Michael L. ----------//----------- > **[Michael Letterle's Blog ·](https://blog.prokrams.com/)**