From: Kaldrenon <kaldrenon@...>
Date: 2007-08-22T21:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: splitting Array - DRY

On Aug 20, 3:58 am, "Simon Schuster" <significa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

I have this book too, and I haven't really delved into it, but I can
tell it's definitely worth having. After all, it's an O'Reilly book.

> 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.

The Pickaxe (the official title is "Programming Ruby - the Pragmatic
Programmers' Guide, 2nd Ed.") is also an excellent resource - highly
informative, well formated code examples, very readable. Might not get
shelved under comedy, but still pretty entertaining, for a programming
book.

If you're LOOKING for comedy, _why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is where
it's at. poignantguide.net 'Nuff said.

GL, HF