# R: Ruby Cookbook

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-ruby-cookbook/101082>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 3, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-ruby-cookbook/101082 "2006-08-03T12:26:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-ruby-cookbook/101082/1 "2006-08-03T12:26:31Z")

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A must-buy.

Le informazioni trasmesse attraverso la presente e-mail ed i suoi  
allegati sono diretti esclusivamente al destinatario e devono ritenersi  
riservati con divieto di diffusione e di uso. La diffusione e la  
comunicazione da parte di soggetto diverso dal destinatario è vietata  
dall’art. 616 e ss. c.p. e dal d. l.vo n. 196/03.  
Se la presente e-mail ed i suoi allegati fossero stati ricevuti per  
errore da persona diversa dal destinatario siete pregati di distruggere  
tutto quanto ricevuto e di informare il mittente con lo stesso mezzo.

-----Messaggio originale-----  
Da: Morton G. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]  
Inviato: mercoledì 2 agosto 2006 13.09  
A: ruby-talk ML  
Oggetto: Ruby Cookbook

Anyone care to post their first impressions on Ruby Cookbook? I haven’t  
seen it yet. I’d like hear what others think of it before buying or not.

Regards, Morton

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-ruby-cookbook/101082/2 "2006-08-03T12:48:45Z")

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David R. wrote:

> -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Morton G. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]  
> Inviato: mercoledì 2 agosto 2006 13.09 A: ruby-talk ML Oggetto: Ruby Cookbook
> 
> Anyone care to post their first impressions on Ruby Cookbook? I haven’t seen it yet.  
> I’d like hear what others think of it before buying or not.

Disclaimer: I’m a total Ruby newbie, so anything that collects together  
a great deal of  
information and examples about Ruby in one place is going to be looked  
upon favourably.

I’ve found the Ruby Cookbook to be an essential companion to the pickaxe  
book. The layout  
of the Cookbook is an easier format for me to access - the problems are  
listed in the  
contents, logically grouped, so I can go directly to where a potential  
solution awaits. I  
was always flipping through the pickaxe book (paper and pdf) looking for  
a particular  
example (that I was _sure_ I saw just a few pages back :o) hence my  
liking the Cookbook  
layout. And even the examples for the first couple of chapters (string  
and number  
manipulation) are replete with nuggets of Ruby that you can apply in  
other situations as well.

The one thing that would make this book better would be if it was  
available in pdf format  
like the pickaxe book. :o)

cheers,

paulv

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**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/r-ruby-cookbook/101082/3 "2006-08-03T12:53:06Z")

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Paul van Delst wrote:

> The one thing that would make this book better would be if it was available in pdf format  
> like the pickaxe book. :o)

I believe Oreilly’s policy is that you can get the final PDF only if  
you purchase during the period when the book is available for purchase  
as a Rough Cuts draft PDF.