Comments on: Annoucing the Merb open source book

By: Arabs who are interested in Merb and Merb-book - Khaled alHabache’s official blog

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:06:17 +0000

[...] many developers from various countries had corresponded to Matt Aimonetti’s article on open merb book, and an early version of the book is out [...]

By: Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:30:08 +0000

@khell, I just added RTL support in the repo and emailed you some information to get started. Thanks a lot for your help.

- Matt

By: khelll

khelll — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:15:10 +0000

Hi, i just want to start working on tha Arabic version of the book, however, Arabic language has the RTL form, which needs us to change the alignment to right, i have modified the master.css like this:
/*master.css (line 101)*/
#book-content {
direction:rtl;
font-size:1.3em;
text-align:right;
}

But i don’t know how do you tend to do that in project itself, if the user choose the Arabic version of the book, would u load another css file or what?

By: The Merbist » Blog Archive » Merb news (Dec 8 2008)

The Merbist » Blog Archive » Merb news (Dec 8 2008) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 08:13:17 +0000

[...] days ago, I announced the Merb Open Source Book project. I expected that few people would be interested as we heard complaints about the lack of [...]

By: Open Source Merb Book | Merb Brasil

Open Source Merb Book | Merb Brasil — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:41:26 +0000

[...] Aimonetti postou em seu site que o Core Team estÃ¡ comeÃ§ando a escrever um livro Open Source sobre Merb. Nos mesmos moldes do [...]

By: Star Trader

Star Trader — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:44:22 +0000

I’ve started working on adding English content. After the rant I gave about no documentation for real user it seems only fair. I’ve also added a Wiki page to the mattetti/merb-book project to try to coordinate what information goes in what chapter as it is not clear.

@Andy L. and Carlo I’ve been interested in doing some Merb Screencasts, but could never come up with a good topic. If you have any suggestions post them to my blog and I’ll see what I can do.

http://blog.antarestrader.com/?p=85

By: vire7

vire7 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:40:09 +0000

This is fantastic news. I used to wonder if frameworks were invented to sell books, then Django did their thing and I longed for the same thing in the Ruby web development world.

That said, I’m fairly green (two Rails apps, one Django under my belt). I’d love to know enough to contribute to such a project some day. Count me in.

By: Matt Aimonetti

Matt Aimonetti — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:17:04 +0000

@Softmind that’s great, we, westerners, have a tendency to believe that all Indians speak English so why bother? I’m glad you will help. Join the mailing list and work on your project when you can. My suggestion is to try to get a team of people to help you out.

@Carlo Definitely, we really should do that!

@Dick Davies I agree, I spent some time last night going through the top google results and try to edit the content when available or to point to more recent documentation. We should really try to find all the old articles and at least add a comment.

@Matias sure thing: they are on the wiki, http://wiki.merbivore.com/ (scroll to the bottom) Merb in action, The Merb way, Beginning Merb and the last one is Merb: What You Need to Know.

By: Steve I

Steve I — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:09:33 +0000

This is excellent and timely.

Just thinking about spending some time learning merb.

Although rails has some excellent resources I don’t know of any equivalent.

This sort of thing will encourage people to contribute and I will certainly try once I feel confident enough.

By: Andy L.

Andy L. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:24:07 +0000

I totally agree with Carlo — Screencasts, on Merbivore’s main page (well, linked from there, with screenshots or some appealing graphics).

I still remember that intro screencast on the Rails site… — It blew me away! Now it’s Merb’s turn.