From: Bill Guindon Date: 2007-05-12T05:37:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Reading materials On 5/11/07, Concours wrote: > 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? > > As a brief background, I've been developing websites and web > applications for the past 8 years (primarily in the ASP environment). I > have a good grasp on OO programming, but haven't really gotten any one > particular language under my belt. > > Thanks for any advice! Some others to consider: Ruby for Rails http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932394699/bookstorenow600-20 Rails Recipes http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr/ Ruby Cookbook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/ And there are more listed here: http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/RubyBookList > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla) The best answer to most questions is "it depends".