Tom, James & All Dedicated Hoboists,
I received the green light from Ramon Barquin to pursue writing this
book ASAP. We are lucky to have Jeffrey Lapides leading this effort.
Jeff has created a draft outline of goals and chapters that we aare
reviewing today.
The "draft" intended audiences:
* The RoR and Hobo novice, especially someone who wants to avoid
RoR coding
* Technology leaders, architects, and evangelists
* A Technically savvy manager/designer who wants to develop but
not code
* Advanced RoR developer who wants to go in a different direction
Our goal is to have the first 100 pages by February 1...
Stay tuned for more details. To make this successful we will need
input and editorial feedback from all. How we will do this is yet
TBD.
Looking forward to an exciting 2009!
Owen
On Dec 29, 5:31 am, Tom Locke <[email protected]> wrote:
> > While it would be nice to be able to use Hobo without Rails
> > experience, it really doesn't seem practical - Hobo *is* Rails, in
> > many parts. Trying to educate brand-new users about *everything*
> > seems doomed to repeat much of the Rails docs.
>
> Yes you would have to repeat a lot, but I'm not sure the word "doomed"
> is warranted : ) In the world of docs, DRY is not a virtue.
>
> Although there's a lot in Rails that Hobo people need a thorough grasp
> of, there's also lot that they don't need to know tons about. E.g.
> routing. Or rather, it's not that you don't need to know about
> routing, but it becomes an advanced topic rather than an essential
> one. The order of learning changes.
>
> The only way to give a seamless learning experience is for a book/
> course/other on Rails and Hobo together. It is a lot of work though.
>
> I'm hoping someone else will write that book!
>
> Tom
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