A couple of weeks ago, I tried to give away some copies of my book Professional Ruby On Rails. I managed to give a way five copies of the book at RailsConf itself, and also planned to give away copies to commenters on this blog.

I’m taking a second shot at the book giveaway on the blog — most people who commented on the post didn’t have any obvious way to for me to contact them if they way. Such an overwhelming number of people didn’t leave contact information that I decided I must have been unclear and the fairest thing to do would be try again.

UPDATE: I now realize that many of you probably entered your email in the web form where it says “this will never be published” — I didn’t see that information for the comments the first time around, but I think that the setup has been changed and I am seeing them now — that’s a perfectly valid way to enter. However, since I didn’t see that information for the first batch of entries, I still think the fairest thing to do is start over.

So here goes. I’m going to try to be more explicit with the rules.

1. I am giving away two books.
2. To enter, leave a comment to this blog post. The comment must make it clear how I can reach you via email (a URL to your blog is fine if your email address is easily findable there). Entering your email on the comment form should be okay.
3. Next Friday, June 20th, I will go to random.org and start generating random numbers. The first two matching comments that have email addresses that I can use will win.

Thanks to everybody who left a comment the first time around — I’m sorry to make you do this again.

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