Books on Ruby

Ruby
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Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Ruby for beginners
Ruby for advanced users

Ruby On Rails for beginners
Ruby On Rails for advanced users

Is there a bible like Larry Wall’s Programming Perl or Bjarne
Stroustrup’s
The C++ Programming Language?

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On Nov 27, 7:19 pm, thefed [email protected] wrote:

→ Learn To Code
→ There are only three days left to get it in PDF form for free (I

The only ritualistically used book I know of is the Pickaxe, put out
by the Pragmatic Programmers.

  • Ari B.

There’s new books coming out every week, it seems, check the leading
online retailer’s website.

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On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:05 PM, barcaroller wrote:

Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Ruby for beginners

→ Why’s Poignant Guide
→ Humble Little Ruby Book
→ Learn To Code

Ruby for advanced users

→ Ruby Source Code
→ The Pickaxe
→ The Ruby Way

Ruby On Rails for beginners

→ Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Apps (Patrick Lentz)
→ There are only three days left to get it in PDF form for free (I
like print, though)!

Ruby On Rails for advanced users

→ Agile Web D. with Rails

http://blog.mrneighborly.com/2007/10/ruby-and-rails-bibliography-of-
sorts.html

That pretty much has it all!

The only ritualistically used book I know of is the Pickaxe, put out
by the Pragmatic Programmers.

  • Ari B.
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On Nov 27, 9:03 pm, “barcaroller” [email protected] wrote:

Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Ruby for beginners

For experienced programmers wanting to work in Ruby, I found
“Programming Ruby” both comprehensible and comprehensive. For
beginning programmers, I don’t know.

Ruby for advanced users

Programming Ruby, 2nd Edition, chapters 22-24.

Ruby On Rails for beginners
Ruby On Rails for advanced users

Agile Web D. With Rails for both.

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ruby cook book

From: “kevin cline” [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:24 PM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: “ruby-talk ML” [email protected]
Subject: Re: Books on Ruby…

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http://www.visibleworkings.com/little-ruby/

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:03:09 -0500
“barcaroller” [email protected] wrote:

Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Ruby for beginners

Learning Programming:
Learn to Program

A bit more advanced:
Ruby by Example

Some programming knowledge from other language:
Everyday scripting with Ruby
Ruby Cookbook
Programming Ruby
The Ruby Way

Ruby for advanced users

Programming Ruby
The Ruby Way
The Ruby Cookbook

Ruby On Rails for beginners

  Ruby on Rails

Ruby On Rails for advanced users

  Can't help you there sorry.

Is there a bible like Larry Wall’s Programming Perl or Bjarne
Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language?

The Pickaxe (Programming Ruby) would probably be the closest although
The Ruby Way wouldn’t be too far behind.

Another good little book to have nearby is O’Reilly’s Ruby Pocket
Reference.

My favourites sources in order:
(I’m probably at (‘bit more advanced’/‘knowledge from other language’)
level above):

  1. Without doubt this newsgroup! A LOT of info gets posted here!
  2. irb, Google, the Cookbook
  3. Ruby Pocket Reference
  4. RDoc Documentation
    Pickaxe, The Ruby Way

I’ve only recently bought Ruby by Example and Everyday Scripting… So
far they are both great books.

cheers,

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this thread is really helpful !

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barcaroller wrote:

Can someone kindly recommend some good books on the following:

Ruby for beginners

For absolute beginners to programming (even kids), “Learn to Program” by
Chris P. is a very gentle introduction to Ruby.

Also for beginners, I am find “Beginning Ruby, From Novice to
Professional” by Peter C. very approachable but it also covers a lot
of ground.

Doug