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Ruby Pocket Reference

John Joyce

8/27/2007 5:40:00 AM

I picked up the new OREILLY book Ruby Pocket Reference today, by
Michael Fitzgerald.
I've got to say, it keeps with the high quality of almost every
Ruby / Rails book out there!
A nice little tomb that fits in your back pocket and actually has
things pretty well organized and answers those little things that you
might forget. It even has nice little glossary at the end. I highly
recommend this little friend for Ruby newbies!
(and Rails people, too!)
Sometimes it's easier and more convenient to use a little book like
this than 'ri' for everything.

Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't yet
been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.
22 Answers

Alex Gutteridge

8/27/2007 6:06:00 AM

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On 27 Aug 2007, at 14:39, John Joyce wrote:

> Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
> camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't
> yet been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.

AFAIK the Perl Camel originated from the 'Programming Perl' book. It
doesn't make any more (or less!) sense than a giraffe for Ruby!

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University

Thomas Worm

8/27/2007 7:59:00 AM

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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:53 +0900, John Joyce wrote:

> Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
> camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't yet
> been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.

Because they put animals on almost every book. The "camel book" comes
from that as beeing a short reference to "Programming Perl" and not
because programming or perl has something got to do with camels. If they
would have put an eagle on it, "Programming Perl" would be known today as
the "eagle book". But they just put a camel on it like they put a giraffe
on the ruby book you mentioned. Just like that.

Thomas

Xavier Noria

8/27/2007 8:12:00 AM

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On Aug 27, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Thomas Worm wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:53 +0900, John Joyce wrote:
>
>> Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
>> camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't yet
>> been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.
>
> Because they put animals on almost every book. The "camel book" comes
> from that as beeing a short reference to "Programming Perl" and not
> because programming or perl has something got to do with camels. If
> they
> would have put an eagle on it, "Programming Perl" would be known
> today as
> the "eagle book". But they just put a camel on it like they put a
> giraffe
> on the ruby book you mentioned. Just like that.

Indeed, the "eagle book" is the one about mod_perl, and the "llama
book" is "Learning Perl". Incidentally Ruby has the "Pickaxe" due to
the same reason, a pickaxe in the cover, though in this case you
usually don't append "book" when you refer to it.

-- fxn

Karl von Laudermann

8/27/2007 4:58:00 PM

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On Aug 27, 3:58 am, Thomas Worm <use...@s4r.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:53 +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> > Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
> > camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't yet
> > been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.
>
> Because they put animals on almost every book.

Since the item most associated with Ruby is a pickaxe (due to the book
Programming Ruby), the appropriate O'Reilly animal should be whatever
animal is known as "nature's pickaxe". I guess that's the giraffe. ;-)

Kyle Schmitt

8/27/2007 5:51:00 PM

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But ruby already _has_ animals.
The cartoon foxes and blixie the cat.

John Joyce

8/27/2007 6:23:00 PM

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No, I'm not that dense, I know OREILLY chooses random animals at
times, but sometimes they get a kind of them going with the animals
for a language. (camel, llama... )
Maybe it just seems that way... coincidental things...
Same guy's Learning Ruby book has the same giraffe with a baby one
too on the cover.
oh well, I was hoping there would be some more interesting info
behind this stuff.

Maybe my mind just sees patterns where there are none. I seriously
always visualize the cover of Programming Perl when I see or hear
'camel caps'/'camel case'. When I see the book cover, I think of
camel-case words...

Todd Burch

8/27/2007 8:25:00 PM

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John Joyce wrote:
> oh well, I was hoping there would be some more interesting info
> behind this stuff.
>
> Maybe my mind just sees patterns where there are none. I seriously
> always visualize the cover of Programming Perl when I see or hear
> 'camel caps'/'camel case'. When I see the book cover, I think of
> camel-case words...

I think we need to adopt Toto from The Wizard of Oz as the official Ruby
animal.

Todd
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Kyle Schmitt

8/27/2007 8:48:00 PM

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On 8/27/07, Todd Burch <promos@burchwoodusa.com> wrote:

> I think we need to adopt Toto from The Wizard of Oz as the official Ruby
> animal.
>
> Todd


Because we need more people thinking rubyists are hopeless dreamers,
living in la la land?

Todd Burch

8/27/2007 9:44:00 PM

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Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> On 8/27/07, Todd Burch <promos@burchwoodusa.com> wrote:
>
>> I think we need to adopt Toto from The Wizard of Oz as the official Ruby
>> animal.
>>
>
> Because we need more people thinking rubyists are hopeless dreamers,
> living in la la land?

What's wrong with being a hopeless dreamer?

I could have gone nasty and said because Ruby performs like a dog, but I
didn't.

Toto was a cool dog. And, of course, that whole movie is about the Ruby
slippers.
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Jeremy McAnally

8/27/2007 10:08:00 PM

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I think the giraffes are what they've assigned to Ruby for some
reason. Doesn't "Learning Ruby" also have giraffes?

I think the cookbooks have dogs/wolves/dingos. So, what are they
trying to say? We have freakishly huge necks and the mange? JERKS.

--Jeremy

On 8/27/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, I'm not that dense, I know OREILLY chooses random animals at
> times, but sometimes they get a kind of them going with the animals
> for a language. (camel, llama... )
> Maybe it just seems that way... coincidental things...
> Same guy's Learning Ruby book has the same giraffe with a baby one
> too on the cover.
> oh well, I was hoping there would be some more interesting info
> behind this stuff.
>
> Maybe my mind just sees patterns where there are none. I seriously
> always visualize the cover of Programming Perl when I see or hear
> 'camel caps'/'camel case'. When I see the book cover, I think of
> camel-case words...
>
>
>


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