comp.lang.ruby

markusjais

9/27/2006 9:26:00 AM

hi Dave

thank you. the new edition is awesome. a great book got even better.

Markus

Dave Thomas wrote:

>
> I've uploaded the B1.12 version of AWDwR.
>
> The major changes include:
>
> - Justin Gehtland's new chapter on Web 2.0
>
> - James Duncan Davisdon's chapter on deployment (this is an
> interesting one---JDD has strong opinions on how a Rails
> application should be deployed, and the chapter mirrors this.
> You'll find it short and easy to follow).
>
> - I changed the Resource-based routing section to use the new
> scaffold_resources generator
>
> - it fixes a number of reported errata and includes a bunch
> of suggestions. To find out what's changed, go to
> http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rai... and select
> the version of the book you currently own in the dropdown.
> The grayed-out entries that appear are the ones that have been
> fixed in the new version.
>
> As usual, the update is available for free from
>
> http://books.pragprog.com/titles/rail...
>
> Enter just two of the three pieces of information to identify your PDF.
> I recommend using your order number and your email address, as these
> tend
> to be be the most consistent.
>
> A note on errata: please do keep them coming in. However, as I'll be
> rewriting the chapters from the first edition (the ones with the gray
> headers and footers) you might not want to stress too much about things
> you find in these. Also, errata about bad page breaks and missing cross
> references will be silently but brutally deleted, simply because that
> kind of stuff is not really important until we come to finish the book.
> Similarly, the entire index will be reworked when the book is finished,
> so reporting missing index entries probably won't help much...
>
> Thanks for your support for this project. Keep the comments
> coming in.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Dave Thomas