Ruby Books

[Charles Heizer]

Hello,
I'm new to Ruby and what I have learned has been from the web. Came
someone please recommend a good Ruby book to use a a reference and
examples.

Thanks,
- Charles

 

[Jared Richardson]

Hello,
I'm new to Ruby and what I have learned has been from the web. Came
someone please recommend a good Ruby book to use a a reference and
examples.

Thanks,
- Charles

The Pragmatic Programmer's pick-axe book is excellent (but I am a little
biased)...

http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html

Jared
http://www.jaredrichardson.net

 

[rmagick]

The most useful book for Ruby is _Programming Ruby The Pragmatic
Programmer's Guide, Second Edition_, by Dave Thomas. Around here it's
called "the Pickaxe." Here's a link:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html.

After that book, get Hal Fulton's _The Ruby Way_.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...102-5181226-8224902?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[TLOlczyk]

Hello,
I'm new to Ruby and what I have learned has been from the web. Came
someone please recommend a good Ruby book to use a a reference and
examples.

Thanks,
- Charles

http://poignantguide.net/ruby/



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[Chris Game]

The most useful book for Ruby is _Programming Ruby The Pragmatic
Programmer's Guide, Second Edition_, by Dave Thomas. Around here it's
called "the Pickaxe." Here's a link:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html.

After that book, get Hal Fulton's _The Ruby Way_.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...102-5181226-8224902?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Unfortunately the 'Ruby Way' seems unobtainable in the UK (not
listed as stock by retailers) - is a new edition due?

 

[Michael Vondung]

Unfortunately the 'Ruby Way' seems unobtainable in the UK (not
listed as stock by retailers) - is a new edition due?

http://tinyurl.com/72qv8 (amazon.co.uk) lists the book as available, and
says it is "usually dispatched within 24 hours". £20.21 including delivery.

M.

 

[Karl von Laudermann]

Hello,
I'm new to Ruby and what I have learned has been from the web. Came
someone please recommend a good Ruby book to use a a reference and
examples.

Allow me to throw in another vote for _Programming Ruby, Second
Edition_, by Dave Thomas. Basically, "the Pickaxe" is to the Ruby
language what "K&R" is to the C language; it's the de facto standard
Ruby reference book.

 

[Charles Heizer]

Thank you to everyone, I have placed a order for the Pickaxe. I really
appreciate it.

- Charles

 

[Chris Game]

http://tinyurl.com/72qv8 (amazon.co.uk) lists the book as
available, and says it is "usually dispatched within 24 hours".
£20.21 including delivery.

Ha! They must have had a new shipload arrive! Thanks for the
correction.

Still looking a little old at 2001 printing date. I suppose the same
was/is true of Perl books though.

 

[Tim Hunter]

Michael Vondung wrote:




Ha! They must have had a new shipload arrive! Thanks for the
correction.

Still looking a little old at 2001 printing date. I suppose the same
was/is true of Perl books though.

Hal's book is still useful if a bit long in the tooth. For that matter,
I'm showing _my_ age but I like to think I'm still useful

The way to get new Ruby books is to buy current Ruby books. Publishers
don't want to finance new editions when they've still got stacks of the
old ones laying around.

 

[Gene Tani]

Mark Slagell's Teach Yourself in 21 Days is still quite a good book,
tho it was written for ruby 1.6. And Jack Herrington's Code Generation
in Action is definitely worth flipping thru once you get familiar with
ERb and the other tools is uses.

 

[Michael Schuerig]

The way to get new Ruby books is to buy current Ruby books. Publishers
don't want to finance new editions when they've still got stacks of
the old ones laying around.

The Rails book has a border at the bottom of the front cover where it
states "The Facets of Ruby Series". I hope this indicates that there
are things to look out for.

Michael

 

[Gene Tani]

forgot to mention: sample chapters of Ruby Way and "21 Days" in
Informit:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=28781