# Seeking tech reviewers for the O'Reilly Ruby Cookbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 3, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-tech-reviewers-for-the-oreilly-ruby-cookbook/76241 "2006-03-03T15:14:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leonard\_Richardson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Leonard\_Richardson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Leonard_Richardson)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-tech-reviewers-for-the-oreilly-ruby-cookbook/76241/1 "2006-03-03T15:14:42Z")
With a huge amount of help from the Ruby community at large, Lucas Carlson and I have nearly completed the first draft of the Ruby Cookbook. To revise the draft, we need even more help, in the form of feedback: people to read the recipes, spot our mistakes and failures to communicate, and let us know about good references for the concepts described. We’ve already got good feedback from people who bought electronic copies of the book through Rough Cuts, from people who’d previously emailed Lucas and me asking to be reviewers, and from contributors who wanted to help out after they’d finished their recipes. I’d like to get a few more reviewers into the book’s CMS/wiki: poking around, trying out the recipe code, sending us feedback and suggested edits. We’ve got a month to do revisions, from March 15 to April 15. We want to make best use of that time by starting from a huge body of feedback. If you’re interested, send me mail and let me know which email address (if any) you use for your [oreilly.com](http://oreilly.com) account, so we can set you up on the wiki. We’ll send each reviewer a free copy of the book and thank them in the Acknowledgements. Also feel free to mail me if you have any other questions about the book. Ruby Cookbook progress page: [http://www.crummy.com/writing/RubyCookbook/](http://www.crummy.com/writing/RubyCookbook/) O’Reilly page for the book: [Ruby Cookbook [Book]](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/) Leonard ---
**Author:** ![Leonard\_Richardson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Leonard\_Richardson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Leonard_Richardson)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/seeking-tech-reviewers-for-the-oreilly-ruby-cookbook/76241/2 "2006-03-03T21:09:08Z")
On Friday 03 March 2006 09:13 am, Leonard Richardson wrote: > With a huge amount of help from the Ruby community at large, Lucas > Carlson and I have nearly completed the first draft of the Ruby > Cookbook. To revise the draft, we need even more help, in the form of > feedback: people to read the recipes, spot our mistakes and failures to > communicate, and let us know about good references for the concepts > described. I’d like to try to help out–I’m pretty new to Ruby (started trying to learn something over a year ago, took a hiatus, am back again), so maybe I’ll have a fresh viewpoint in looking over the material. (I’m usually pretty good at spotting unclear language and similar, and would probably attempt to try at least some of the recipes.) Actually, what would be nice is to get access to the wiki (and book) to see what it’s like and to see if I think I can contribute anything. Is there anything available to look at before March 15? > We’ve got a month to do revisions, from March 15 to April 15. We want > to make best use of that time by starting from a huge body of feedback. > If you’re interested, send me mail and let me know which email address > (if any) you use for your [oreilly.com](http://oreilly.com) account, so we can set you up on > the wiki. AFAIK, I don’t have an [oreilly.com](http://oreilly.com) account, but would prefer to use my gmail address: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid. Do I need to go to [oreilly.com](http://oreilly.com) and register? (I just registered at [oreillynet.com](http://oreillynet.com), with that email address and rhkramer as a screen name–working on verifying my email address.) > We’ll send each reviewer a free copy of the book and thank > them in the Acknowledgements. > > Also feel free to mail me if you have any other questions about the > book. I’d be tempted to start at the beginning with my review until I get bored, then skip ahead to interesting sections–do you have any sections in particular that you feel need review? Randy K.