Ruby Cookbook now in PDF format

[Leonard Richardson]

You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook
as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the
first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well,
other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be
watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.

The O'Reilly page: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/
The Official Unofficial Homepage is still at:
http://www.crummy.com/writing/RubyCookbook/

The Cookbook sample code is available from both sites.

Leonard Richardson
http://www.crummy.com/

[Dark Ambient]

Figures, I order my first print book in ages and a few hours later it's pdf'ed.

Whatever
Stuart

[BreadW...@fractious.net]

"Leonard Richardson" <leonard.r...@gmail.com> writes:

> You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook
> as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the

> The O'Reilly page: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/

That's awesome.

I've already bought it. O'Reilly might check out their
download page, though - it comes through nice and automatically -
downloaded as a file named 'Ruby' - no extension - and without
any means for the browser to set the file type (on a mac where
the file type may be determined other than through the extension).

At a minimum, they need to change the filename.

The file itself is perfectly fine. I added the .pdf extension
and it opens right up in Preview.

Thanks for getting them to do this. The PDF format will make
my life much easier. It's a hell of a lot lighter to carry
around than the dead tree version, even if it's harder to
read on the subway.

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[Dave Rose]

thank you....now i don't have to lug the big book on the bus when
commuting to work....

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[Paul van Delst]

Leonard Richardson wrote:
> You asked for it, you got it! O'Reilly is now selling the Ruby Cookbook
> as a downloadable PDF for 50% off the cover price. AFAIK this is the
> first full-length O'Reilly book to be sold as PDF, and if it goes well,
> other O'Reilly books should follow. PDF copies of the Cookbook will be
> watermarked but not encumbered by DRM.

Brilliant! Within 5 minutes of reading the above, I had it on my laptop. Now I can lend my
paper copy to colleagues to tease them over to the side of goodness and light.... :o)

Thanks very much.

cheers,

paulv

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[Dr Nic]

Thanks O'Reilly. 900 virtual pages of loveliness.

And thanks to Leonard for the notification.

Nic

[Jim Morris]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I guess Bitching and Whining does work ;)

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[Rick DeNatale]

On 8/10/06, Jim Morris <m...@e4net.com> wrote:
> Thank You, Thank You, Thank You... I guess Bitching and Whining does work ;)

Or at least Bitching and Whining take the credit, as usual. Those two
are always trying to impress everyone with their accomplishments! <G>

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[Josselin]

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/ gives :

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /catalog/rubyckbk/ on this server

is there any other link available ?

thanks for this mre than valuable work.. I'll buy the PDF (cheaper and
faster for people on the other side of the Ocean...)

joss

[Dark Ambient]

Just to mention little fact. I downloaded the source code and all
the files are extensionless.
Meaning no .rb

Stuart

[Keith Fahlgren]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:10 pm, Josselin wrote:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/  gives :
>
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /catalog/rubyckbk/ on this server
>
> is there any other link available ?
>
> thanks for this mre than valuable work.. I'll buy the PDF (cheaper
> and faster for people on the other side of the Ocean...)

Works fine for me at 12:56pm EST.

Keith

[Leonard Richardson]

> Just to mention little fact. I downloaded the source code and all
> the files are extensionless.
> Meaning no .rb

I fixed this in the zipfile on crummy.com.

Leonard
http://www.crummy.com/

[Dark Ambient]

Thanks Leonard.
Stuart

[Dark Ambient]

Wait ..I can't find it on there.
Can you point it out.
TIA
Stuart

[N Okia]

Thanks for the pointer. I had already ordered it from Amazon, but the
free shipping option means it won't arrive for another couple of
weeks. I'll be happy with my PDF version until then.