From: Russell Date: 2012-09-29T01:30:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Good book for getting started with Ruby? --20cf307f35ba2b69b704cac59157 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I really liked The Well Grounded Rubyist. On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:05:25PM +0900, Dami=E1n M. Gonz=E1lez wrote: > > Good question, there's many books about Ruby, now I'm apart from the > > books(not in my house right now), but I never forget about two, the > > first one you have to read is a masterpiece by _why and it's free: > > > > >> why's poignant guide to ruby > > > > And the one you should have is another masterpiece by Dave Thomas and > > company. > > > > >> Programming Ruby 1.9 > > > > Also the one that become with the ruby installer for windows(by Luis > > Lavena) called The Book Of Ruby(by Huw Collingbourne) is good. > > > > Have fun in this journey! > > I have to disagree. The Book of Ruby is a bucket of bad habits presented > to unsuspecting new Rubyists as good practices. It should not be read by > anyone who has not already been a Rubyist for several years, involved > with the community at least to some degree, and competent to write > production code -- possibly with a couple of published gems to one's > credit. At that point, the person would probably see all the problems > with the book and refuse to read the whole thing, anyway. > > . . . and I'm not just talking about the version that was delivered with > the installer. I'm talking about the version that was actually fixed up > and edited for publication by No Starch Press. > > None of this should be taken as deprecating the Ruby Installer for > Windows at all. It and its developers are to be commended on quality > software, I believe. > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > > --20cf307f35ba2b69b704cac59157 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I really liked The Well Grounded Rubyist.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Chad Perrin <code@apotheon.net>= wrote:

On F= ri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:05:25PM +0900, Dami=E1n M. Gonz=E1lez wrote:
> Good question, there's many books about Ruby, now I'm apart fr= om the
> books(not in my house right now), but I never forget about two, the > first one you have to read is a masterpiece by _why and it's free:=
>
> =A0>> why's poignant guide to ruby
>
> =A0And the one you should have is another masterpiece by Dave Thomas a= nd
> company.
>
> =A0>> Programming Ruby 1.9
>
> =A0Also the one that become with the ruby installer for windows(by Lui= s
> Lavena) called The Book Of Ruby(by Huw Collingbourne) is good.
>
> =A0Have fun in this journey!

I have to disagree. =A0The Book of Ruby is a bucket of bad habi= ts presented
to unsuspecting new Rubyists as good practices. =A0It should not be read by=
anyone who has not already been a Rubyist for several years, involved
with the community at least to some degree, and competent to write
production code -- possibly with a couple of published gems to one's credit. =A0At that point, the person would probably see all the problems with the book and refuse to read the whole thing, anyway.

. . . and I'm not just talking about the version that was delivered wit= h
the installer. =A0I'm talking about the version that was actually fixed= up
and edited for publication by No Starch Press.

None of this should be taken as deprecating the Ruby Installer for
Windows at all. =A0It and its developers are to be commended on quality
software, I believe.

--
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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