From: Gregory Brown Date: 2009-02-04T04:52:59+09:00 Subject: Re: 1.9.1? 2009/2/3 Zayd Abdullah : > So since these changes have been made, will us noobs be hurting ourselves > starting off learning 1.8.6? Books to learn from are teaching from 1.8. I think things are looking up for Ruby 1.9 books, actually. Here's the path I'd recommend (with some obvious bias) = To grasp the fundamentals "The Well Grounded Rubyist" [0] = To understand the details "Programming Ruby 1.9" [1] and/or "The Ruby Programming Language" [2] = To use Ruby effectively "Ruby Best Practices" [3] ---- This will give you a very well rounded experience, and once you understand Ruby 1.9, quite a bit of your knowledge will still transfer smoothly back to 1.8. Most of these books are in Beta right now, all except [2], but if you pick them up know you will help us catch problems before we go to print, improving the situation for those taking the plunge directly into Ruby 1.9. -greg [0] http://www.manning.com/black2/ [1] http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/programming-ruby-1-9 [2] http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/ [3] http://rubybestpractices.com