Ruby, Rails E-Books [birdwin]

Here are 17 electronic books on Ruby and/or Rails. The naming scheme is as follows: [Amazon Average Customer Rating]-[Number of Reviews].[Number of Pages].[Month of Publication]-[Year of Publication].[Publisher].[Title].[Extension] Here are the contents: 3.5-28.182.8-2006.OReilly.Ruby.on.Rails.Up.and.Running.chm 4-5.267.5-2008.Pragmatic.Programmers.Deploying.Rails.Applications.A.Step-by-Step.Guide.pdf 4-6.433.1-2009.OReilly.Head.First.Rails.pdf 4-28.910.11-2007.Addison.Wesley.The.Rails.Way.pdf 4.5-9.359.1-2008.OReilly.Advanced.Rails.pdf 4.5-11.309.6-2007.No.Starch.Press.Ruby.by.Example.Concepts.and.Code.pdf 4.5-14.297.6-2006.Pragmatic.Programmers.Rails.Recipes.pdf 4.5-14.600.1-2007.OReilly.Rails.Cookbook.chm 4.5-20.500.5-2008.Sitepoint.Simply.Rails.2.pdf 4.5-21.888.11-2006.Addison.Wesley.The.Ruby.Way.2nd.Edition.chm 4.5-24.564.7-2007.Addison.Wesley.RailsSpace.Building.a.Social.Networking.Website.with.Ruby.on.Rails.pdf 4.5-29.908.7-2006.OReilly.Ruby.Cookbook.pdf 4.5-108.715.12-2006.Pragmatic.Programmers.Agile.Web.Development.With.Rails.2nd.Edition.pdf 5-2.448.11-2008.OReilly.Learning.Rails.pdf 5-6.407.5-2008.Pragmatic.Programmers.Advanced.Rails.Recipes.pdf 5-22.446.1-2008.OReilly.The.Ruby.Programming.Language.pdf 5-29.664.3-2007.Apress.Beginning.Ruby.From.Novice.to.Professional.pdf I removed spaces from the filenames so moving in a shell would be easier. 14 are PDF files, and 3 are CHMs. For Linux readers, chmsee is the best CHM viewer I've seen. I'm not sure about Macs. I've got ebook packs for lots of other things [from artificial intelligence to LaTeX to reverse engineering, and everything in between] coming soon. Feedback, especially on the naming scheme, is much appreciated. This is the pattern I use to name ebooks on my machine, and I'm especially curious to hear what others think. While I don't think that the Amazon avg. customer rating is a foolproof indicator of a book's quality (look at SICP, for example), it's the best I've found, in addition to skimming the table of contents. And if anyone knows how to make Nautilus sort a 4.5* filename AFTER a 4* filename (aside from reversing the overall sort order, smartasses), please let me know. Enjoy!

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fallenembers (2009-03-08)

Re the sort order:
The Mac sorts the files the way you ask. You might consider switching.
Re the naming scheme:
To be honest, I don't like it very much. Removing spaces makes it hard to read them. The rationale for that is weak as handling spaces in a modern shell is easy.
Also I don't see much usefulness in some data in your scheme (Amazon review data in particular).
Finally, the data field order is questionable. Do you really want them sorted by Amazon average customer rating?

ezshooter (2009-04-12)

The publishing date is extremely useful information in your naming scheme. Not sure if I miss all the rest.
Anyway, thank you very much for the release! :)

mxzm (2009-05-25)

Thx buddy

666DOGLORD666 (2009-08-14)

Thanks, birdwin!
I agree, the publishing date in the name is most helpful!

dstar101 (2009-10-03)

Publishing Data and Date is most important:)
I do not like the avg rating:(
Thanks for the books

Knabino (2009-10-08)

Having the Amazon rating is very handy! Quick way to decide which books to read or check out first.

kludge420 (2010-08-22)

First thank you for the upload.
Date of publication is hugely important like anything over 2 years old is virtually useless with Cocoa (and might actually be harmful teaching you bad habits). But for the rest of it? Useless and a bit annoying to be honest. I sort my books by the title and put the year at the end. I end up removing a lot of garbage people put on there like publisher and whatnot.
Thanks again!

hoaxcode (2011-09-19)

Thanks :-)