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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/1/07, Jeremy Hinegardner <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> 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 continual
> '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.

That does sound pretty nice, although somebody should alert PETA to this. :-)


> 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

Looks somewhat interesting, but probably not my next book buy.

> > 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.

Well, the tragedy hear is that Mike Miller is in Minneapolis, and I'm
in Bethesda Maryland (close to the other other Columbia). There is
probably a Ruby user's group somewhere around DC, but I haven't
checked.

> 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.

I have the first edition of this, and for some reason, it didn't grip
me. The second edition could be loads better, of course.

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

I doubt anybody would pay me more to do that than to do what I am doing now. :-)

jking

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