I try to incorporate all questions I get into the manual in some way. If you send me your "missing manual", I can include its content in the real manual :)
Jay On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jordan Schatz <jor...@noionlabs.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 04:25:46PM -0600, Gerry Weaver wrote: > > I am new to Racket and Lisp/Scheme in general. I am trying to write a > > simple rest web service in Racket, but I'm not making much > > progress. Unfortunately, I don't find the Racket docs to be very > > helpful. I guess my brain just isn't wired right ;-) Asking questions > > on the mailing list would almost be a step by step at this point, so I > > thought I would spare y'all from that. > > I am also working on moving my company's web dev from other languages to > Racket, and have also found the docs to be slow going, and I don't want > to bother the list with each question.... So I have started to collect > the info I find, problems I encounter etc into a "missing manual" and > would love to collaborate on it if you are interested. I intend for it to > be something of a quick start for someone who already knows how to > develop, but is new to lisp, functional programing, and the racket web > server. My opinion is that it is very much worth it to keep trying with > the docs, I have had more days of frustration learning racket then I have > with any other language or framework, but it is starting to pay off and I > think it was worth it. > > There are these existing docs: > http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html > http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html > http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/index.html > > and Jay McCarthy (who maintains the web server) has an app he wrote up on > github: http://github.com/jeapostrophe/m8b its helped alot to see actual > code. > > -Jordan > > PS You also mentioned sedna. I'm guessing you might also be frustrated > with relation databases? I am also tired of writing ORMs and am using the > move to Racket as a good chance to move to different ways of storing > data, I've found that Riak http://wiki.basho.com/ works well, and its the > best fit for the type of apps I develop. > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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