At popular request, there's now a sample that's a few minutes long so people can see the style, hear my voice, check the codec works for them, etc :-)

Also, I'm going to be doing a series of Ruby 1.9 upgrade and tips type posts on Ruby Inside in the next few weeks. Give away half the farm, as it were. Being hit with a sales page straight off isn't a great way to go IMHO ;-)

This looks like a great piece of work, but I'd much prefer a textual format that I can read anywhere and refer back to later. A 3 hour video is rather unwieldy for me, and I can't grep it!

Do you have any plans to release the same material in blog or ebook format? If it's as comprehensive as the video TOC suggests, I'd happily pay for it.

I agree. When I set out I did not expect it to be so long(!) but I'm a bit of a barge through and release kinda guy ;-)

What I'll be doing is a series of posts on Ruby Inside which cover much (but not all) of the material on a topic by topic basis and then, eventually, include an e-book version for free with the screencast product (for existing customers too). So in the long term, yes.

However, in the interim.. I've put up the notes I used to make the screencast as a text file at http://rubyinside.com/19.txt - it's also pretty unwieldy but is text, at least ;-)

This is great - thanks very much for the notes! Looking forward to that ebook version :)

Just bought it, it's 3 hours long just as a warning to those short on time :) but on the other hand.. it's 3 hours of petercooper's manly voice for $16, bargin

Looks great Peter. Are you going to do an affiliate program? I guess you pretty much are the source for all things Ruby, so maybe that wouldn't make sense in this case.

Since a lot of my livelihood depends on Ruby and getting people up to Ruby 1.9 (a far less painful world!) is a big part of my strategy, I've priced this to sell.. and I doubt even half of $16 would be that interesting to an affiliate :-(

However, I will definitely have some bigger things out in future.. :-)

Hi Peter, this looks great. Was the decision to make a video rather than an ebook a commercial one or personal preference?

There's a bit of back story. I run a Ruby course for intermediate developers at http://rubyreloaded.com/ and as a "bonus" part of the course I promised a run down of Ruby 1.9 in screencast format. My research showed there was more to it than I'd imagined so I decided to double down and put a lot more effort into it and sell it as a separate product too. So currently it's a video as that's what I promised my students, but I want to extend it later.

If it were a solely commercial decision, an e-book would have been the better way to go since there's still quite a bit of resistance against screencasts vs e-books IMHO.

THANK YOU THANK YOU!

is it possible to have a pdf version?