Talk:Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby

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This article should mention the date or year of the Guide's release. I haven't been able to find it, though. Roberthoff82 16:35, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I think it started in 2003 (or maybe early 2004) but I'm not sure. (Now that I check archive.org, the first instance is February 2004 -- but a few chapters had already been written.) Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 00:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

The link to the printed version leads to the message "Item not available" so it should be removed, shouldn't it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.160.50.38 (talk) 19:27, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia material?
Do we need to have an article about every online rant "textbook" here? Kokot.kokotisko (talk) 00:04, 25 May 2011 (UTC)


 * It's really not a "rant". It's a tutorial. And a pretty widely read and used one at that. And the style of it has influenced a fair few other similar tutorials like 'Learn You a Haskell for Great Good' and so on. Aesthetically, they are far too self-consciously cute and postmodern for my liking, but whatever. If you think Wikipedia doesn't need this, feel free to nominate it for deletion. The fact that it was selected for Spolsky's book and is also mentioned in a whole stack of programming books is probably more than enough to satisfy notability requirements. —Tom Morris (talk) 00:24, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Reception
The 'Reception' section of the article currently contains just one person's response to the book, and a very negative one at that. It needs more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.137.17.67 (talk) 08:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)