From: Josh Cheek Date: 2011-07-14T03:47:21+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyInstaller Extras --90e6ba53aa709d3ef004a7f7d8ac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:33:44PM +0900, patrick lynch wrote: > > ...looks interesting...i'm just finishing up on a long Haskell > > journey...so, i'll probably buy this book...but the 30% discount is not a > > large incentive, since Amazon is selling it for $26.37 - so, i'll buy it > > there... > > I thought it might be worth it to get from No Starch Press with the 30% > discount anyway, because the price with the discount code is only about a > buck and a half more than the Amazon price and it comes with ebook > formats for no additional charge that way (whereas Amazon doesn't appear > to offer an ebook format for it at all, including Kindle -- and if it > did, it would probably be at least $20 for that one format). > > I was thinking of getting it from No Starch Press because of the free > ebook formats, but when I saw Steve Klabnik's email commenting on the > abnormal code style in the book I decided I should really read a sample > chapter or two (in addition to the sample Chapter 10 being offered here, > the No Starch Press site also offers Chapter 11). > > That adventure led to a combined review of two books, *The Book of Ruby* > and *Eloquent Ruby*. If you're interested: > > http://blogstrapping.com/?page=2011.194.11.46.40 > > The TL;DR summary goes something like this: > > I'd recommend *Eloquent Ruby* over *The Book of Ruby*, not only > because I think it is better, but also because it very well might > make *The Book of Ruby* largely redundant. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > Enjoyed the review. Your summary of Eloquent Ruby reflected my experience pretty accurately. --90e6ba53aa709d3ef004a7f7d8ac--