From: Jeff Schwab <jeff@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T00:23:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in a Nutshell

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 28.02.2009 17:02, Tim Hunter wrote:
>> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>>> I'm thinking of buying & reading Ruby in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2001), 

>>> I'm really looking for an extremely concise, but in-depth guide to 
>>> Ruby.

>> 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."
> 
> Jeff, IMHO the upcoming book by David A. Black could be for you - 
> although it is not short either.  But it covers 1.9:
> 
> http://www.manning.com/black2/
> 
> An then there's the material which can be found online:
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/gettingstarted

Thanks, Tim and Robert.  I appreciate the pointers.  I've read a couple 
of Flanagan's books (on Java and JavaScript), and found very clear and 
readable.

The Manning book looks promising, too.  The site says that "The 
Well-Grounded Rubyist is [a revised edition of] Ruby for Rails."  I've 
seen positive reviews of that book.  Rails is the primary reason for my 
recently rekindled interest in Ruby.