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Many thanks to you for writing this documentation.
That’s how I see it - "documentation" not just a textbook. There is no other source that comes close to the high quality of documentation for Ruby as that in The Book of Ruby. It addresses the one major flaw I see in open source software - lack of documentation. Thank you again for the book.
Case in point: I’m about to give up on evaluating Pentaho and Infobright because the cost involved in installation is too high. All it would take is better documentation and a little more rigor in release process.
I’d also like to thank you for innovating in the tools space. I most recently worked in C# and before that C++, both in Visual Studio. Now I work in Ruby with TextMate, which provides little more than highlighting and autogen’d documentation search (which fails 25% of the time). There are other extensions to TextMate for Ruby I could try to use, but due to a lack of documentation it may take me a half day to install the extensions just for evaluation.
Ted Howard