# Ruby papers in Linux Journal **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 30, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367 "2006-05-30T16:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/1 "2006-05-30T16:17:29Z")
Hello everyone, Has anybody noticed _that_ ? 🙂 [http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147](http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147) [http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png](http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png) (wow !) – Jean-François . ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/2 "2006-05-30T16:40:02Z")
Jean-François wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Has anybody noticed _that_ ? 🙂 > > [http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147](http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147) > [http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png](http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png) > > (wow !) > > – Jean-François . I’m glad I fixed the RMagick gem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/3 "2006-05-30T18:28:05Z")
On May 30, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Jean-François wrote: > Hello everyone, > Has anybody noticed _that_ ? 🙂 > > [http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147](http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/147) > [http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png](http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/lj/0147/toc147/cover147.png) > > (wow !) Not to mention DHH is looking impressively GQ on the cover. That guy’s so hot right now… -Mat ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/4 "2006-05-30T18:37:36Z")
Also on the cover of Dr.Dobbs… This place will get crowded soon. -tim ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/5 "2006-05-30T20:38:54Z")
On 5/30/06, Jean-François [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Has anybody noticed _that_ ? 🙂 Interesting. But I’m a little concerned that none of the Ruby articles were written by people that I have ever heard of in this community. Maybe Linux journal only publishes articles written by their own staff? Ryan ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/6 "2006-05-30T20:57:44Z")
Ryan L. wrote: > staff? > FWIW, I don’t work for Linux Journal, and they’ve published a Ruby > article of mine, on OOo parsing. And, at least when I was dealing with > them, they were on the lookout for more Ruby articles. But it’s interesting to see articles from people whose names never seem to appear on this mailing list (though the number of Ruby metaverses has expanded.) Some of what I’ve seen seems like simple rewording of content from other places, such as the Rails wiki, and simple errors are not uncommon, suggesting that the authors have a somewhat limited, and focused, area of knowledge. Which is fine, so long as what they write is accurate. – James B. “A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it.” - Len Bullard ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 9:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/7 "2006-05-30T21:45:12Z")
On 5/30/06, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > FWIW, I don’t work for Linux Journal, and they’ve published a Ruby > article of mine, on OOo parsing. And, at least when I was dealing with > them, they were on the lookout for more Ruby articles. Is your article available somewhere online? On 5/30/06, Ryan L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Interesting. But I’m a little concerned that none of the Ruby articles > were written by people that I have ever heard of in this community. > Ryan Since Rails is still the hot thing, they’re likely to just focus on what you need to know to use Rails, so there’s less room for error. I’m interested to hear if someone have actually read the articles and what they think of them. ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/8 "2006-05-30T22:59:42Z")
On May 30, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Simen E. wrote: > Since Rails is still the hot thing, they’re likely to just focus on > what you need to know to use Rails, so there’s less room for error. > I’m interested to hear if someone have actually read the articles and > what they think of them. I read the DDJ article. It was well written and accurate, but basic for most on this thread (appropriate, I’d say). It starts with a hard hitting anecdote about Bruce Tate switching to rails mid- project, ends with a quick interview with DHH. It was largely an overview piece but hard hitting enough that I passed it around my management group. Here’s a link for interested parties: [http://tinyurl.com/nmylj](http://tinyurl.com/nmylj) [[ddj.com](http://ddj.com)] -Mat ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/9 "2006-05-30T23:02:51Z")
Simen E. wrote: > On 5/30/06, James B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > FWIW, I don’t work for Linux Journal, and they’ve published a Ruby > > article of mine, on OOo parsing. And, at least when I was dealing with > > them, they were on the lookout for more Ruby articles. > > Is your article available somewhere online? [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7236](http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7236) – James B. “You harmonize; then you customize.” - Wilson Pickett ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/10 "2006-05-30T21:07:16Z")
On 5/30/06, Ryan L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 5/30/06, Jean-François [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Has anybody noticed _that_ ? 🙂 > > Interesting. But I’m a little concerned that none of the Ruby articles > were written by people that I have ever heard of in this community. > Maybe Linux journal only publishes articles written by their own > staff? Well, Maik Schmidt (‘Ruby as Enterprise Glue’) wrote Enterprise Integration with Ruby – [http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr\_eir/index.html](http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_eir/index.html) so, LJ isn’t being completely wrapped up int their own writers. ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/11 "2006-05-31T01:45:56Z")
On May 30, 2006, at 5:07 PM, James B. wrote: > What struck me, though, was that it was the sort of thing they > should have ran a year ago. > > Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, the article was old news > and fairly cursory. It seemed more appropriate for USA Today than > a professional computing magazine. > > Dr. Dobbs is clearly not what it used to be. Amen to that. I think it’s interesting to note that about 2 years ago (IIRC) they ran an article on RubyCocoa, but didn’t do much with ruby after that. A little too early to make a stir, I guess. -Mat ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 2:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/12 "2006-05-31T02:04:03Z")
Mat S. wrote: > little too early to make a stir, I guess. > Ironically, they published an article on Ruby by Dave T., back in 1. But by then they were already sliding into the Java/.Net vortex. They ran article of mine earlier this year, and expressed an interest in more Ruby articles, so folks with the time and inclination may want to contact them. – James B. “A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it.” - Len Bullard ---
**Author:** ![Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-FranSSSSois](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jean-FranSSSSois)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-papers-in-linux-journal/95367/13 "2006-05-30T23:09:02Z")
Mat S. wrote: > hitting anecdote about Bruce Tate switching to rails mid- project, ends > with a quick interview with DHH. It was largely an overview piece but > hard hitting enough that I passed it around my management group. What struck me, though, was that it was the sort of thing they should have ran a year ago. Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, the article was old news and fairly cursory. It seemed more appropriate for USA Today than a professional computing magazine. Dr. Dobbs is clearly not what it used to be. – James B. “The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.” - Edsger W. Dijkstra