Speaking of idiomatic translations, the French translation for O'Reilly's "In A Nutshell" is "en concentré." Tue Feb 27 2007 12:25 Cooking Ruby Like The French Cook Ruby:
The Ruby Cookbook has been translated into French. Rather than an idiomatic title they chose Ruby par l'exemple, which I'm actually glad of: I think the pedagogic power of the Cookbook has been undermarketed. Plus, it was translated by Eric Jacoboni, who did some review for the original Cookbook.