# Which Ruby book to read?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 10, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428 "2007-03-10T23:22:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/1 "2007-03-10T23:22:20Z")

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Hello,

I’m going to re-read a book (just one book at the moment!) about Ruby  
to sharpen me knowledge, what do you guys recommend?

Programming Ruby (PragProg)  
Ruby for Rails (Manning)  
The Ruby Way (Addison Wesley)

Or another book?!?

I know Ruby, but seems I forgot some advanced details so I like to  
read a Ruby book again.

Which one guys?

Thanks a lot,

- Dunnil

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**Author:** ![Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@Human\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Human_D)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/2 "2007-03-10T23:38:21Z")

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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Human D. wrote:

> I’m going to re-read a book (just one book at the moment!) about Ruby  
> to sharpen me knowledge, what do you guys recommend?
> 
> Programming Ruby (PragProg)  
> Ruby for Rails (Manning)  
> The Ruby Way (Addison Wesley)

I’d suggest \_why’s mad ways? It’ll sure help with the…

> I know Ruby, but seems I forgot some advanced details so I like to  
> read a Ruby book again.

…advanced details.  
\*t

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/3 "2007-03-11T00:25:27Z")

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You mean: [http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/](http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/) ?

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/4 "2007-03-11T00:56:30Z")

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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Human D. wrote:

> You mean: [http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/](http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/) ?

Yup 🙂  
\*t

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/5 "2007-03-11T01:57:39Z")

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Human D. wrote:

> I know Ruby, but seems I forgot some advanced details so I like to  
> read a Ruby book again.
> 
> Which one guys?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> - Dunnil

Well … the broadest of the three in terms of useful knowledge you may  
not have is the second edition of “The Ruby Way”. So that’s the way I’d  
go. It’s also the newest of the three, so it has the benefit of some  
things the other two don’t. “The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition” has a couple of  
other things going for it:

1. A fairly complete comparison of the major Ruby GUIs. That’s got to be  
the most frequently-asked question here.
2. About the only usable documentation on web app frameworks _other_  
than Rails, like Nitro.
3. As many “recipes” and “snippets” as most of the “cookbooks” have.

–  
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)  
[http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/)

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given  
rabbits fire.

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/which-ruby-book-to-read/88428/6 "2007-03-11T01:12:31Z")

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On 3/10/07, Human D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I know Ruby, but seems I forgot some advanced details so I like to  
> read a Ruby book again.
> 
> Which one guys?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> - Dunnil

The second edition of The Ruby Way is probably teh most useful ruby book  
I own.