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

[Jeremy Hinegardner <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:57:10AM -0500, Jonathan King wrote:
> >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

Or here http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html

> 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. 

The Pragmatic Programmers are by far the best Ruby books on the market.
The "Pickaxe" book (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction and
reference book.  "Agile Web Development with Rails" is far and above
every other rails book on the market. 

    http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails2/index.html

Additionally the Rails Recipes book is quite good

    http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/index.html

You can order all of their books directly from the Pragmatic
Programmers, and they do great PDF/book combos.  Personally I order from
PragProg directly since I can get their specially trained hamsters to
churn out a personalized PDF :-).  Which comes with conintual
'upgrades'.  So if there are errata and such they will issue a new PDF
with the updates and you just go have the hamsters build you a new one.

A friend of mine who does ad-hoc scripting and other maintenance type
things found one of the PragProg's newest books "Everyday Scripting with
Ruby" useful.

    http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/bmsft/index.html

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

Or just get all the PDF's :-).

You might also start a local Ruby Users group in Columbia if you're
going to be doing lots of ruby development.  It would be great to have
more groups out there.  And if your team is going to be doing lots of
Ruby or Rails development and you want to get them all in a kickstart
the Pragmatic Programmers do training too.

Hal Fulton's 'The Ruby Way' is good too.

    http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Way-Second-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0672328844/sr=1-1/qid=1172778065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6368998-4300944?ie=UTF8&s=books

Well I do sound like a fanboy now don't I.

But heck, I now get to do ruby and rails programming for a living so
that just makes me happy :-).

enjoy,

-jeremy

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