From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2010-12-09T16:22:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby book

de novo caveat lector

Yukihiro Matsumoto's book entitled The Ruby Programming Language
ISBN-10: 0596516177
is the best. =)

Seriously if I had to get rid of every Ruby book I have and could keep
only one. This is the one I would keep. In case you don't know it's
written by the language creator.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:55 PM, abe <abedar2000@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 12:01 am, Jose Hales-Garcia <jose.halesgar...@stat.ucla.edu>
> wrote:
>> On Dec 7, 2010, at 6:35 PM, abe wrote:
>>
>> > i am looking for a good ruby book for a developer who has a c
>> > programming over 10 years and 10 years in vb
>> > i looked at the cooper book (beginnig ruby) -- seemed too basic,
>> > anybody can recommend a better book than the cooper book
>>
>> Besides the online API docs, I've found 'Ruby Best Practices' useful...http://rubybestpractices.com/
>>
>> Jose
>
> so i gather that pickaxe book _Programming Ruby_ by Dave Thomas is at
> best
> thanks...
>
>