# Anyone read this , opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 29, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090 "2006-10-29T23:50:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zanoni)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090/1 "2006-10-29T23:50:04Z")
Hadn’t seen it before - [http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321474074&rl=1](http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321474074&rl=1) Rubyisms in Rails , published back in July in PDF . Stuart – > **[Dark ambient](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient)** > > Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-pla > The te... ---
**Author:** ![zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zanoni)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090/2 "2006-11-07T10:43:54Z")
Seems like a nice read: > **[Book Review: Rubyisms in Rails](http://on-ruby.blogspot.com/2006/10/book-review-rubyisms-in-rails.html)** > > A little while ago, I interviewed Jacob Harris about the Rubyisms in Rails shortcut he wrote for Addison-Wesley. This time, I'd like to... [http://ruby.about.com/od/suggestedreading/gr/rubyisms\_rails.htm](http://ruby.about.com/od/suggestedreading/gr/rubyisms_rails.htm) I’m considering to buy it… ---
**Author:** ![zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zanoni)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090/3 "2006-11-07T10:43:55Z")
On Monday 30 October 2006 09:48, Dark A. wrote: > [http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321474074&rl=1](http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321474074&rl=1) > > Rubyisms in Rails , published back in July in PDF . Coming from Python with no prior knowledge in neither Ruby nor Rails this book was a life saver to me. It is not all that much about Rails though, but about Ruby especially in aqll aspects that mater in Rails I think the optimal audience are people like me - experience i other OO languages, but new to Ruby and Rails, and wishing to understand what’s going on under the hood Horst ---
**Author:** ![zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zanoni)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090/4 "2006-11-07T10:49:28Z")
I just finished reading this book. This book has the best explanation on symbols. It does a good job of explaining duck typing, blocks and metaprogramming. The topics under metaprogramming are very easy understand, they are reflection, message sending and method missing. I found it easier to understand because it shows snippets of Java code to show how the problem can be solved and then gives the Ruby equivalent. It does not explain very well or go deeper on the DSL topic. This could have doubled the size of the book easily. ---
**Author:** ![zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/e99b99/32.png) [@zanoni](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/zanoni)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 10:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/anyone-read-this-opinion/74090/5 "2006-11-07T10:49:31Z")
Sounds like it’s a definite buy. Stuart On 10/31/06, Bala P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > It does not explain very well or go deeper on the DSL topic. This > could have doubled the size of the book easily. > > > – > **[Dark ambient](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_ambient)** > > Dark ambient (referred to as ambient industrial especially in the 1980s) is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-pla > The te...