From: Richard Conroy Date: 2006-10-05T22:37:00+09:00 Subject: Re: K&R for Ruby? On 10/5/06, Logan Capaldo wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:15:05PM +0900, Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is there a concise introduction/coverage of Ruby similar to how > > Kernighan & Ritchie did for C? > > > > I am quite comfortable with programming, and I am currently reading > > "Programming Ruby" which I like, but it seems too much. Ie it makes > > Ruby seem like a very big language, perhaps it actually is? > > > > I don't just want a simple reference, but something with a concise > > tutorial along the lines of K&R. Is there such a book? > If you don't mind a rails project being the example project, Ruby for > Rails by David Black is an excellent introduction to Ruby as a language. Actually I have to second this. *Ruby for Rails* has an excellent introduction to Ruby (about the first 4 chapters have to be read fairly linearly, after that the chapters become very domain specific). Just because its 4 chapters, don't assume that it is a lightweight introduction either.