From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2006-10-15T04:50:18+09:00 Subject: Re: What books to buy? Kyrre Nyg�rd wrote: > > Hey all! > > I aspire to become a great Ruby as well as Rails developer. But > what books should I buy? > > 01 > Programming > Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition > 02 > Agile > Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers) > 03 > Ruby > on Rails: Up and Running > 04 > Rails > Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) > 05 > Ruby > Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) > > Is this a good mixture? For instance, with 02, do I really need > 03? Or with 03, do I really need 02? Please give me your input guys. I > don't have too much money to spend. > > Thanks, > Kyrre > > > I would buy the Second Edition of Agile Web Development With Rails directly from Pragmatic (in beta), and download the required "Edge Rails". For background, I would buy Programming Ruby in PDF from Pragmatic, since the paper versions aren't updated as frequently. And I would buy David Black's "Ruby for Rails" from Manning, which isn't listed in your selections. I believe it's available in both PDF and paper. Well ... you said you aspire to becoming a *great* Ruby/Rails developer. :) If that's too much for you, just get David Black's book and play around with the tutorials.