From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2009-03-01T01:02:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in a Nutshell

Jeff Schwab wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying & reading Ruby in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2001), 
> but am concerned that it may be outdated.  The stable version at the 
> time of publication was Ruby 1.6.  Is this still worth the investment?
> 
> I'm really looking for an extremely concise, but in-depth guide to Ruby. 
>  I own (and have read) the Pick Axe and The Ruby Way, but neither of 
> them are really what I want.  I'm concerned with the mechanics, syntax, 
> and libraries, but most of the books (and lupine cartoons, however 
> amusing) just seem to be cursory love letters of the form "look at all 
> this cool stuff you can do with Ruby!"  That's great, but it's not what 
> I need right now.
> 
> 

You want _The_Ruby_Programming_Language_, by David Flanagan & Yukihiro 
Matsumoto, O'Reilly, 2008. It describes Ruby 1.8 and some Ruby 1.9. At 
400+ pages, it's in-depth but hardly what I'd call "concise."

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