From: Brian McCallister <brianm@...>
Date: 2005-01-31T23:56:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommendable ruby books?

/The Ruby Way/, Hal Fulton
	Quite good in my opinion, captures the spirit of ruby very well

/Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed/ (Pickaxe 2), Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
	Most up to date and probably the best general reference available

-Brian


On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Tom Rathbone wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Thinking of buy some literature to accelerate my learning Ruby.  What
> would people recommend?
>
> The two I am looking at presently are the frequently mentioned
> Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (a.k.a the pickaxe book) and The Ruby Way
> which Matz seems to appreciate judging from the Foreword.
>
> Are both books up to date?  Does anyone recommend any others?  I'm
> especially interested in Rails and any book that could give a greater
> insight into the framework and the implementation and techniques would
> be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom.
>
>