Re: Ruby Cookbook now in PDF format

"Leonard Richardson" <leonard.richardson@xxxxxxxxx> 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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