From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-15T08:21:51+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your favorite Ruby book?

From: "Michael C. Libby" <m_libby@andsoforth.com>


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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_
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> 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).
>

Depending on what you already know, of course, you'll learn a lot about Ruby
from TRW.  Apart from the cookbook-style element (the obvious benefit of the
book), you learn a lot about the language as a whole, and about advanced OOP
and dynamic concepts (a headspin).  It's one of the best books on my shelf.

Gavin