From: "Michael C. Libby" <m_libby@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T22:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?

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On Wednesday 13 November 2002 09:57, Tim Hunter wrote:
> If you're a serious Ruby developer, you'll need _The Ruby Way_

Can you explain this further? Maybe I'm not serious enough about Ruby 
development, but I've taken several ganders at "The Ruby Way" and didn't 
feel compelled to buy it because it lacked depth in many of the areas 
where I'd have wanted it the most (the GUI toolkits sections are 
particularly light, imho).

My favorite Ruby book is the Pickaxe, especially since it's licensed under 
the OPL... even better that Dave and Andy made it available as HTML. 
Having that as a resource during my first week of Ruby programming 
(without having to buy it) was invaluable-- without it I wonder if I would 
have ever felt compelled to use Ruby when I was already quite happy with 
Perl... this also led me to buy the book fairly quickly thereafter.

In fact, if other English-language Ruby books were licensed OPL and 
available on the net, I would buy hardcopy just to show my support-- even 
if they weren't as useful to me as the Pickaxe.

 -michael
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