Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Average customer rating: 4.5

The weight is equal to the knowledge within
Has faults, but best I've seen so far
All the information you need
a good ruby book
A very good introduction for programmers getting to know ruby

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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
Dave Thomas , Chad Fowler , and Andy Hunt
Manufacturer: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Product Group: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0974514055

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Book Description

Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide.

Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: <ul>

An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. </li>

The definitive reference to the language. </li>

Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods </li>

Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries.</li></ul>

If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems, and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing.

This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

Customer Reviews:

The weight is equal to the knowledge within.......2007-05-22

Fantastic book. Very well laid out and informative. For a ruby/programming newbie, check out why the lucky stiff's "poignant guide to ruby" as well and you'll have all the tools you need.

Has faults, but best I've seen so far.......2007-05-21

I taught myself to program in Ruby using this book. I was already experienced in Fortran and IDL, but Ruby is my first object-oriented language. Although the book can be confusing, and is not written at a beginner level, I was able to get what I needed from it, and still enjoy cruising through the book to learn more about Ruby. I keep it on my nightstand, but hey...I'm a geek.

If you are new to object-oriented programming I would first recommend reading "The Object Oriented Thought Process" by Matt Weisfeld before actually learning Ruby.

All the information you need.......2007-04-11

A Great way to learn ruby and a great reference guide once you have - contains all the information I needed to learn ruby, clearly set out in a chapter progression that facilitates moe advanced learning as you go along.

a good ruby book.......2007-03-11

An interesting book if you want to learn about ruby. It's very useful

A very good introduction for programmers getting to know ruby.......2007-03-09

I dont have a lot to add here other than what the subject saya - having worked with multiple other languages (including perl) this book is a good reference and start point to get to know the basics of ruby before getting started on rails and such (if you want to know the basics of ruby behind it, which many rails manuals fail to address), like what and why and how a :symbol works in magical ways :) I read the first few chapters in full, then using it as a reference now.

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