On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:44 +0100, Dave Murphy wrote: > I've been mulling over an idea for a book covering Ruby on Rails > application deployment. Obvious topics include using Mongrel by itself > and with Apache/Lighttpd, load balancers, memcached, and Capistrano.
Dave, Ezra's already got a book coming out on that topic and I'm supposed to be helping with a tiny one for just Mongrel tweaking. This duplication of course hasn't stopped publishers from flooding the market with the exact same books anyway, so feel free to pitch your idea to one of them. :-) I do have some alternative suggestions though, based on what I think people need next: * Rails Security -- Just a book on the common web app security issues but focused on Rails, with a good section on auditing that we can make rails-core read. * Teaching Rails -- A "train the trainers" book, probably really small for people who are experienced in Rails and Ruby but must now teach a bunch of noobs. I will only buy this book if David A. Black writes it. * Database Design for Rails -- A basic theory book in ER design and how Rails does it, geared toward the mass of people who cowboy their databases with migrations until everything mostly works. * Search In Rails -- Small book on search using Hyper Estraier, Ferret, and other search frameworks and how to integrate with Rails easily. * The Other Frameworks -- Bad name, but basically Camping, Nitro, Wee, and IOWA. Heavy on their design and Ruby, less on using them. * The Tao of Modern System Management -- I am so sick and tired of lame system administrators who do not automate their management tasks and act as troll gatekeepers making it impossible for me to do my job. I'd love nothing more than a book and a bunch of software that puts a good 90% of these idiots out of work. It happened to developers with recent process improvement movements, it's high time something similar happened to system administrators. Theme of this book would be "if you manually ssh into any machine YOU'RE FIRED!" * The Te of Performance Measurement -- I guess I have to write this one, but basically a book on modern statistically based performance measurement techniques from the perspective of Statistical Quality Control. * Rails on Win32 -- Windows is so painful for Rails, maybe a little PDF book would help. That should get people talking. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
