From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-01-26T18:59:26+09:00
Subject: Re: What books to buy?

On 10/15/06, Kyrre Nyg�rd <kyrreny@broadpark.no> wrote:
>
> Thank you all for such wonderful advice!
>
> My background is basically just simple shell scripting.
>
> I wish to avoid PDF because I don't want to hurt my eyes too much.

I have that problem too.

> So anyway, how come nobody mentioned O'Reilly?
> I thought they were good at it!

Well the Ruby Cookbook is a great book for when you just need to get stuff done,
but the nature of book writing for Ruby is that there are a couple of
great texts
like the Pickaxe, Ruby for Rails etc. and they have run away with the mindshare.