Two Hobo eBooks now available at Hobocentral.net

Tom Locke has created this page for book access:

http://hobocentral.net/books

“Rapid Rails with Hobo”
“Hobo at Work”

We are currently looking for a publisher for enhanced print versions.

-Owen

Latest draft of “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

New versions as of Feb 7,2010:

Please find the PDF:
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And the Word DOCX:
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Uploaded latest version of “Hobo Under the Hood”

TOC enhancement and page renumbering fixes:

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This book is continues where “Rapid Rails with Hobo” left off…

Updated PDF for “Rapid Rails with Hobo”

Minor edits for the installation section:

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Uploaded draft of “Hobo Under the Hood”

These was previously the last 200 pages of “Rapid Rails with Hobo”. As the latter was topping 500 pages, I reorganized and refactored them into two books that can be used as “companion” texts. “Rapid Rails with Hobo” includes the 27 tutorials. “Hobo Under the Hood” drills deeply into the infrastucture of Hobo and how it significantly enhances Rails.

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Uploaded trimmed versions of the “Rapid Rails with Hobo” book

We decided to take the last 200+ pages out (Hobo Under the Hood) and make it a separate document. The new Rapid Rails with Hobo is leaner…

PDF: Beta Version 0.9.8.8

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DOCX: Beta Version 0.9.8.8
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Revisting the original goals of our book “Rapid Rails with Hobo”

“Create a full set of rock-solid instructions and tutorials so that
even a novice developer can create, revise, and deploy non-trivial
data-rich Web 2.0 applications. The user must have fun while
learning, and develop the confidence to take the next step of diving
in to learn more about Hobo, Rails and the elegant and powerful object-
oriented language behind these frameworks – Ruby.”

Toward that end we’ve decided to trim out the more “reference-oriented” Chapter “Hobo Under the Hood” as a separate publication. This makes the intro book more coherent and compact.

Another Revision of “Rapid Rails with Hobo”

Only minor formatting and edits…

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Revised Installation Instructions for “Rapid Rails for Hobo”

There is now a Ruby 1.9.1 Windows installer available (RC1).  Revised the instructions to start from Ruby 1.9.1 and use the Hobo 1.0 release candidate 2 (0.9.103).

Things are looking good!

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PDF Version:

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PDF Compressed:

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Updated Draft of “Rapid Rails with Hobo”

1. Locked down content

2. Re-ran index mapping

3. Changed title and code fonts after a test run on a B & W printer

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Added a PDF version:

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