How often is the beta being updated?

I just bought v3.0 beta and I’m just wondering how often its worth checking back for new iterations to download?

every three weeks +/- a week or so

you will receive an email when a new beta is ready

Are we due a new version?

I am about to start a new run through the book but would rather wait until the next version of the book before doing so if it’s only a couple of days away

Anybody?

It’s been a while since the last version.

If anyone has any idea how long it will be for the next version of the book I would love to know

Sam! Are you there? It’s been nearly 2 months since the last release or have I missed something?

Hi James,

Last release was June 4th

I’m sure it will be ready when it is ready….

cheers, Dave Porter

Such a huge lag time is unacceptable.

Just a note that I’m still here and listening. I apologize for the delay and am actively working on an update. More when I have concrete news to report.

Thank you Sam

Any news about this?
I’m thinking on buying this book but i wouldn’t like to wait such a long time for next releases.

I bought this book in beta because of what Sam said: “every three weeks +/- a week or so.” If you don’t mean it, don’t say it. The last revision happened almost two months ago. Please update us on what the hold up is. Thanks!

~Dustin Tigner

Dustin:

Authors are human. Sometimes life intervenes. The next release will be out just as soon as we can get it ready.

-Dave

Jeez, what a bunch of whiners. The book is technically not even released yet. You are paying for the full version which will come. All this with the Beta version now is just a bonus.

The next beta will be early next week, and all of the remaining chapters, save one, will have been updated to work with Rails 2.1. The one chapter that will not have been updated is chapter 25 – Web Services. This chapter is likely to get cut and/or replaced.

Thanks Sam – Great news! Looking forward to it…
Dave Porter

The updated beta is now available. Rumor has it that Rails 2.2 will be released in early September at RailsConf. I plan to have make a beta release of the book as close as humanly possible to the release of the product with whatever updates are necessary.

Excellent. Thanks for your all your hard work.

My gerbil just finished my new and very much improved beta book. I’m very excited to finish my getting started application, and I’m ready to deploy my first application, so your security and deployment sections will be very helpful. It’s great news that there will be another version of Ruby on Rails coming out so soon and that you’ll be covering the changes.

I apologize for coming off as impatient before. I bought the beta book under the preconceived notion that another version would be released within a few weeks. It’s likely I wouldn’t have purchased yet another Ruby on Rails book if this wasn’t the case, since I have several others. Thus, when I finished the updated content I was excited about continuing and was not able to. Reading this thread and the many others who were upset only made it more reasonable, in my mind, to post what I did.

From your point of view, there was still a lot of work to be done and the previous date mentioning the availability was likely a mistake. From my point of view, it was like buying a book and having the store not ship it for a month and a half. I understand that you are human and appreciate the hard work that has gone into this new update. I’m very much excited to read the new sections. :) With that in mind, please see our side too – we are not whiners, just slightly agitated for the prolonged wait.

Thanks for the update!

~Dustin Tigner

Dustin,

In other posts Sam took grief for releasing too early and without support for Rails 2 in many chapters. Going to ground, and coming up with all chapters supporting Rails 2 is a logical response to those concerns. But not to yours.

This is a great illustration of how you can’t please everyone all the time.

For my part, I’m very excited that the tutorial should now cover Rails 2. That’s HUGE for the Rails class I’ll be teaching soon.

-Steve