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Why the Lucky Stiff announced today the release of the first three chapters of Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby.

This book is not so much a manual. There will be no reference. This book is closer to a novel, a comic, or maybe a biography. Or all three. Ultimately, I'd like to have a book that could be so accessible that it could be a NYT bestseller. Of course, I don't ever expect that to happen, but that's how plain I'd like the instruction to be.

Face it. This is the future. Kids are going to be programming their skateboards, their GI-Joe tanks, their shoelaces, their oatmeal. Ruby could easily be that language that the common man can get his hooks into. This probably isn't the book that will make Ruby become universal, but it's a steppie in that vicinity.

My roadmap has the book finished next summer. This gives me a couple months for each chapter. I'd like to release early and often. The best thing you can do is bug me. Feedback. Constant reminders when a new chapter is due. Bug me to death. The demand will motivate me. If you don't like the book, tell me why.