>Are they willing to do an open source book, as it were?
	>
	>Rather than reinvent a nearly completed wheel--which will be a rather hard
	>act to follow, IMHO--maybe they should do a "Ruby Cookbook", hitting the
	>primary topic areas in the popular "Perl Cookbook" and "Object Oriented
	>Perl". The ruby-talk mail archive and the Ruby Application Archive source
	>code also contains a rich source of Ruby programming idioms to mine.

Sounds like a great idea!  Are you volunteering, Conrad :-) ?

/\ndy