From: Simon Schuster <significants@...>
Date: 2007-08-20T16:58:49+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting Array - DRY

> what's one of the best book about "Programming Ruby, the way it should
> be..."  ?

the Ruby Cookbook (ISBN: 0-596-52369-6) is really great, as it's
almost entirely working examples with lots of commentary (I learn by
doing/copying/changing), and has a curve that makes it great for
learning and also for later reference. also many of the examples
showcase various gems, which is very helpful for me. The table of
contents makes it very easy for me to find exactly what I'm looking
for. (Chapter 4: Arrays... 4.13: Extracting Portions of Arrays) highly
recommended!

being a beginner to programming in general, Beginning Ruby (ISBN:
1590597664) covers a lot of great information, including a whole big
chapter on documentation, (I wouldn't have thought of looking into
RDoc otherwise!) error handling, debugging and testing... seeing as
how unit testing seems like a big part of ruby, and how I just
wouldn't have thought of looking into it, I find this very helpful as
well. and that's where I am in that book, about halfway, chapter
8/16+appendices, so it'll probably get somewhat advanced. knowing C
already, I don't know if I could recommend it, but perhaps some
foundation-up learning could be helpful. The early stuff shouldn't be
TOO painful, as I'd bet that ruby and C differ pretty early on.