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 :)<div><br></div><div>Jay<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jordan Schatz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jordan@noionlabs.com">jordan@noionlabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 04:25:46PM -0600, Gerry Weaver wrote:<br> > I am new to Racket and Lisp/Scheme in general. I am trying to write a<br> > simple rest web service in Racket, but I'm not making much<br> > progress. Unfortunately, I don't find the Racket docs to be very<br> > helpful. I guess my brain just isn't wired right ;-) Asking questions<br> > on the mailing list would almost be a step by step at this point, so I<br> > thought I would spare y'all from that.<br> <br> </div>I am also working on moving my company's web dev from other languages to<br> Racket, and have also found the docs to be slow going, and I don't want<br> to bother the list with each question.... So I have started to collect<br> the info I find, problems I encounter etc into a "missing manual" and<br> would love to collaborate on it if you are interested. I intend for it to<br> be something of a quick start for someone who already knows how to<br> develop, but is new to lisp, functional programing, and the racket web<br> server. My opinion is that it is very much worth it to keep trying with<br> the docs, I have had more days of frustration learning racket then I have<br> with any other language or framework, but it is starting to pay off and I<br> think it was worth it.<br> <br> There are these existing docs:<br> <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html</a><br> <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/index.html</a><br> <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/index.html" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/index.html</a><br> <br> and Jay McCarthy (who maintains the web server) has an app he wrote up on<br> github: <a href="http://github.com/jeapostrophe/m8b" target="_blank">http://github.com/jeapostrophe/m8b</a> its helped alot to see actual<br> code.<br> <br> -Jordan<br> <br> PS You also mentioned sedna. I'm guessing you might also be frustrated<br> with relation databases? I am also tired of writing ORMs and am using the<br> move to Racket as a good chance to move to different ways of storing<br> data, I've found that Riak <a href="http://wiki.basho.com/" target="_blank">http://wiki.basho.com/</a> works well, and its the<br> best fit for the type of apps I develop.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5">_________________________________________________<br> For list-related administrative tasks:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu" target="_blank">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>><br>Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University<br><a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a><br> <br>"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93<br> </div>