Re: [MLUG] what's a good Ruby on Rails book?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/1/07, Pottinger, Hardy J. <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > Quite possibly the Agile Programming with Ruby book (take a look at
> > a bookstore). And I would take a look at other Pragmatic Programmers'
> texts
> > on rails as well.
>
> I second this recommendation, the books I've seen from Pragmatic have
> been detailed, easy to read, and remarkably well edited. If you buy the
> dead tree version, they'll sell you the PDF dirt cheap, which is really
> handy. Specific to Ruby, you'll see lots of folks refer to the "Pick
> Axe" book. This is it:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0974514055

Right; that's the Dave Thomas book I'd mentioned. It is excellent.
That said, I am also quite impressed with the Ruby Cookbook. Pragmatic
Programmers books are very well edited. My son also has their "Learn
to Program" book, which is an intro to programming using Ruby which is
quite nice despite the fact that it inexplicably omits any discussion
of hashes. They really are an excellent small publisher, kind of like
O'Reilly back in the day. (A lot of stuff from ORA is still good, but
there are some spectacular exceptions and their proof-reading went
through a really nightmarish patch that I think they've fixed now.)

> But the agile web development book you've already mentioned (2nd
> edition) is the latest and greatest, so that's probably your best bet
> for RoR.

Glad to hear it. I paid zero to borrow it from the library, but if I
get hooked, I'll probably buy it.

jking

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