On what of these books is better to start to study Ruby?

[Vlad Gerasimov]

I have 3 books:

1. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second
Edition (2006 год, верÑÐ¸Ñ 1.8...)

2. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (2009
год, 1.9)

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (2009 год, 1.9)

Advise, it is better to begin with what book?

 

[Shashank Tiwari]

Read http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/ and start coding!

 

[Vlad Gerasimov]

Read http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/ and start coding!

Thanks, but this book of 2006 and old version Ruby

 

[Jan]

I'll suggest Programming Ruby then The Ruby Way.

- J

 

[Vlad Gerasimov]

I'll suggest Programming Ruby then The Ruby Way.

- J

THANKS!

 

[Shashank Tiwari]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

If you know everything in this book, you will not struggle with learning the
newer features.

 

[Vlad Gerasimov]

If you know everything in this book, you will not struggle with learning
the
newer features.

Shashank, thanks!

 

[Joe Martin]

I have 3 books:

1. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second
Edition (2006 год, верÑÐ¸Ñ 1.8...)

2. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (2009
год, 1.9)

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (2009 год, 1.9)

Advise, it is better to begin with what book?

I have Beginning Ruby. It's good and explains things well, definitely
got me started Ruby'ing, but it's index is quite incomplete. I now use
it as my first resource to brush up on topics I have forgotten about,
but would probably recommend another book with a better index for a
beginner.

 

[Rick DeNatale]

I have 3 books:

1. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second
Edition (2006 =C7=CF=C4, =D7=C5=D2=D3=C9=D1 1.8...)

I wouldn't start with this one, plus, it's rather old now. It's more
a survey of the available open-source ruby searches four years ago
than in introduction to the language, so much is no longer applicable
to what's out there today.

2. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (2009
=C7=CF=C4, 1.9)

Not familiar with this one, other than seeing the cover in bookstores.

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (2009 =C7=CF=C4,=

1.9)


I'd say that is the best place to start, it has a good tutorial
followed by more in-depth discussion and the reference material.

Another good book for beginning/slightly advanced Rubyists is David A.
Black's The Well Grounded Rubyist.

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[Alex DeCaria]

I have 3 books:

1. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second
Edition (2006 год, верÑÐ¸Ñ 1.8...)

2. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (2009
год, 1.9)

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (2009 год, 1.9)

Advise, it is better to begin with what book?

I would start with 'Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers’
Guide' (2009). I've used it (and its predecessor) more than any other
Ruby book.

I also greatly enjoy "The Ruby Programming Language" (2008) by Flanagan
and Matsumoto (an O'Reilly book). I don't refer to it much when
actually writing Ruby code, but I like just sitting down and reading it
when I'm away from my computer. It explains a lot of details about Ruby
and I've learned a lot from it.

--Alex

 

[Mark Hobley]

I have 3 books:

1. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second
Edition (2006 ???, ?????? 1.8...)

2. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (2009
???, 1.9)

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers? Guide (2009 ???, 1.9)

Advise, it is better to begin with what book?

Interesting. I bought SAMS Teach Yourself Ruby. I wonder how that compares.

Mark.

 

[Brian Candler]

3. Programming Ruby 1.9 The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (2009 год, 1.9)

Also consider the 2nd edition of that book (for 1.8). You'll probably
find it cheaper, and there are still plenty of libraries out there which
are not compatible with 1.9 anyway.

The first edition is available on-line for free, at
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

This was written for ruby 1.6.8, but is still quite workable as a
starting point, and you'll at least discover whether you find the style
helpful or not before deciding to buy the 2nd or 3rd edition.