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Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt are The Pragmatic Programmers. They are authors of the seminal book, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, and have since written more best-selling and award-winning books. Andy and Dave speak at clients and conferences around the world, and their publishing company, the Pragmatic Bookshelf, continues producing books that help software developers stay on the top of their game.Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community. Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He co-authored the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer, was one of the 17 founders of the Agile Alliance, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.
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By Stuart
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I am part way through this book, and find it a fantastic in depth guide to the Ruby programming language, fortifying the basic knowledge I already have of Ruby, the book is split into 4 sections: getting started, ruby environments, the core language and a library reference. It really is everything you need to know about the Ruby programming language, however if you are new to Object Orientated programming, I suggest read Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source) first as it is a fantastic beginners guide to Ruby and OOP, and then move on to this book.
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By S. Lowe
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A well thought out introduction and reference to the Ruby programming language - its clarity is only matched by its succinct and easily digestible nature. If only more tech books were as enjoyable to read.
This book is the definitive introduction to Ruby, and should be your first port of call if you are interested in Ruby and would like to learn more. It's great to see that the book has been reworked in detail to bring it up to date with contemporary versions of Ruby.
This book is the definitive introduction to Ruby, and should be your first port of call if you are interested in Ruby and would like to learn more. It's great to see that the book has been reworked in detail to bring it up to date with contemporary versions of Ruby.
By tomq
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I just skimmed the book for lack of time but what it feels like it is a great resource, addressing important queries cropping up during development e.g. I liked the one showing how to code a many-to-many via a middle table owning its own properties in Rails ORM thing etc. I think the book is good for those with basic experience of Rails and presumes knowledge of putting things together in Rails at the basic level so myself being a bit lower than basic level in Rails (although have experience in Java frameworks), find myself in need for some tutorial before making full use of this great book.
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