From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2007-05-12T05:27:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading materials

quoth the Concours:
> I've recently been turned on to Ruby and Rails, and after some
> preliminary searching, I've settled on two sources to help get things
> started.
>
> 1) Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Open
> Source)
> 2) Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers)
>
> I believe book #2 is referred to as the "pickaxe" in the Rails
> community?  Have I made a good choice on materials, or are there some
> other books I should be looking into?

The 'pickaxe book' is "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide" by 
the same publisher. It focuses on core Ruby, rather than Rails.

I do recommend it, and in fact it is the only Ruby book I have (but I have not 
used Rails, nor do I intend to).

-d
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