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you are an experienced programmer wanting to learn Ruby, this book is for you, A word of warning, though: go take a look at Chapter, Metaprogramming, That's the place where the object model of Ruby is explained, Without it, the rest of the book will seem to rely a bit too much on your faith, Unless, of course, you enjoy discovering the truth behind the magic for yourself, I'm sure it is possible and fun, but if you cannot spend the extra time, do take a peek at that chapter,

Another warning: the book or at least it's ebook version has quite a few typos, especially in Part, Programming Ruby: sitelinkThe Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition by Dave ThomasI've never made it through one of these books, I always end up reading random snippets on the web instead, It's fine though, half of it is just library documentation anyway, as is always the case,

I just need to figure out how to make irb give me decent documentation, . . cheat ri rdoc how can this not be built in!
The 'pickaxe,' oftcited as the definitive guide for aspiring Ruby hackers, I'd have to agree. The edition I have was updated for the current release of Ruby and contains some gems about the innerworkings of the language that I found fascinating, Read it if you are a dyedinthewool Rubyist or even a dispassionate student of computer languages, You'll no doubt find something worthwhile here, good reference material
THE Ruby book, Get one if you ever program in Ruby, This book was the beginning of a great journey through the ruby language for me which changed my style of programming quite significantly, The writing style is clear and easy to follow whilst at the same time managing to convey a lot of information in a concise way, I wish all programming books were written this way, Old but gold, back to the time where lamdba is frequently called Proc, reflection for the term metaprogramming, not surprising surprisingly Profiler, For me the diamonds are ObjectOriented Design Libraries and Sharing Data Between Ruby and C makes me think about native approachs POROs more than the goget a library,

It provides a ground surface for new developer who wanted to step into Ruby, a beautiful interpreter language supporting OOPfirst in its design, The patch for this book should be Ancestry chain to know deeper about the inheritance and newer Enum mapreduce for FP paradigm,

There are many ways to achieve a purpose in Ruby, the freedom of choice, to sail a ship into the ocean, to know the vast ocean, to gain the knowledge.
Writing Ruby is a joy!
sitelink rubydoc. org/docs/Programm Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there, If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox, This book is the only complete reference for both Ruby,and Ruby., the very latest version of Ruby,marks theth anniversary of the Ruby language, We're proud that throughout its history, we've continued to cover the latest version of Ruby, Would you like to go from first idea to working code much, much faster Do you currently spend more time satisfying the compiler instead of your clients or end users Are you frustrated with demanding languages that seem to get in your way, instead of getting the work done Are you using Rails, and want to dig deeper into the underlying Ruby language If so, then we've got a language and book for you! Ruby is a fully objectoriented language, much like the classic objectoriented language, Smalltalk.
Like Smalltalk, it is dynamically typed as opposed to Java or C, but unlike Smalltalk, Ruby features the same conveniences found in modern scripting languages such as Perl and Python.
The combination of the power of a pure objectoriented language with the convenience of a scripting language makes Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forwardthinking programmers, The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby, The definitive reference to the language, Complete documentation of all builtin classes, modules, and methods, Complete descriptions of allstandard libraries, This is the reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all builtin classes and modules including all the new and changed methods introduced by Ruby.,, and It also includes all the new and changed syntax and semantics introduced since Ruby,. Learn about the new parameter passing rules, local variable scoping in blocks, fibers, and the new block declaration syntax, among other exciting new features, About Ruby. Ruby.is a minor update to Ruby,, unlike the more major updates from Ruby,to Ruby The major language changes in Ruby,are the addition of keyword arguments and the change to use UTFas the default source file encoding, There are a number of additions to the standard library, including: Enumerator::Lazy, which adds support for lazy access to potentially infinite lists, Refinements allow you to encapsulate changes to thirdparty classes, and scope their application to individual source files, preventing your changes from polluting the global application, You'll also find that Rubyis faster, and has memory management improvements that make it more serverfriendly, All told, there are oversections of the book that have been flagged and crosslinked to indicate,content. What You Need This book assumes you have a basic understanding of objectoriented programming, In general, Ruby programmers tend to favor the the command line for running their code, and they tend to use text editors rather than IDEs, Ruby runs on Windows, Linux, and Macs, About the Author Dave Thomas is a cornerstone of the Ruby community, and is personally responsible for many of its innovative directions and initiatives, He and original coauthor Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf, Andy Hunt is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher, He coauthored the bestselling book “The Pragmatic Programmer”, was one of thefounders of the Agile Alliance, and cofounded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing awardwinning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.
Chad Fowler is codirector of Ruby Central, Inc, and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community, Essential. This book lacks structure and organization, It constantly jumps from simple to complex examples and it's hard to get the author's intention, It's just too confusing. In parallel, I'm reading Apple's Swift book, It's impossible not to compare, I'm not talking about the language, but how the books were structured, Apple targets the reader, making the programmer comfortable with the language, This book is the opposite, It made me feel uncomfortable with Ruby, I might use it as a reference book, but with the Internet, I doubt I'll be searching for anything here, Well, time to reactivate my TeamTree House account, . . sitelink com/library/topi I was disappointed with the socalled Pickaxe Bible, If you're looking for purely a reference book with some decent explanations, this book is great, It seems pretty exhaustive for beginneradvanced applications of Ruby and takes care to remain somewhat "framework" neutral by always listing both popular frameworks as well as alternatives, However, a few things stopped this from being a great book: lack of applicable examples and inconsistent formatting, The examples were usually very contrived, it would have been great to spend more time giving examples of situations where you may want to use a certain language feature and give an example the reader can work along with.
The code examples were also inconsistently formatted, Sometimes you'd have aclass example to clearly explain functionality, other times it would be a string of code snippets that felt like with a bit more effort they could have been woven into a more coherent example.


A tutorial this book is not, but as a reference for those who have programmed before and want to answer the question "how do I do XXX in Ruby", this book fits the bill.
Ok, so I have been teaching myself Ruby since last fall and I am in love with it,

Javascript: too wordy, too many fking loops and punctuation, mostly front end, can be used for some programming,

PHP: too many functions, hard to find the one you want, less wordy and loopy than javascript, Back end web programming.

Ruby: Beautiful. Elegant. Simple. Bless it. Very little punctuation, loops only where you need them and a not an overload of built in functions/methods, Back end, needs a compiler, Still beautiful.

But Ruby on Rails can be a bit troublesome, opinionated, and locked into the framework, Don't get me started on deployment, Makes PHP look downright friendly,

Good book to get you started by experts in Rails,

It is the "go to" Ruby book for a reason, If you want to learn Ruby why wouldn't you you pretty much HAVE to read it, A number for things that I didn't quite understand earlier, have just "clicked" when reading this book, I definitely feel like knowledge I got from it was worth the time spend reading this book,

If you're a complete complete Ruby novice like me you will want to read straight through the firstparts, Partis a dry Ruby Library Reference, so you may want to leave that out until you need something specific from it,
If you know a bit about Ruby and programming in general you may simply refer to specific chapters for help in understanding specific topics, The chapter on metaprogramming is a doozy, : Draft Ok clearly its written for programmers at least know some other language, Book contains spot on reference and comparisons to other languages when introducing ruby features, Other than that its not a holy bible book as ruby community insist, if you are experienced I would consider Well Grounded Rubyist but this book has much better formed examples.


Bought the new version from Pragprog, Added a few errors on the errata list, Don't read this with an iPad, Go try the code samples, Some may not work on, Overall I am happy to have spent time reading "what I assume to have always known" about Ruby, It remains to be the most fascinating language I use, I am happy with how this book is written even if it is obviously not perfect but looking forward to revisions, Their credits to the Japanese programmers who improve the language is good, Ruby.would even be better because of GC improvements, Required reference for a Ruby programmer, Required learning material for a rubynewbie, This book is huge and exhaustive, but it's very well organized, I went from knowing absolutely nothing about Ruby to writing useful programs for myself by the end of Chapteraboutpages,

Ruby is a big language and I think it warrants a big book, Big human languages like English allow concise and elegant speech, Big programming languages allow the same, But they do take longer to learn, Fortunately, Ruby has two things going for

it in this regard:

It borrows a lot from other languages, so the more languages you know, the quicker you'll pick up Ruby.


It's nicely designed and fairly consistent, so once you learn something, you can often apply it to other parts of the language,

Chapterwas my first big "ooooh!" moment with the language: modules and mixins, By the way, I think "module" is a really poor choice of word for this functionality and "mixin" has always sounded silly to me, That term dates back to the Flavors object system for Lisp and was taken from the ice cream industry, But who cares what it's called it's simple and its pragmatic and it works, Import a module's methods into a class and now the class has those methods, I like this kind of system,

My book was the Second Edition, covering Ruby,. And yes, it's sat on my shelf since it was current, I'm embarrassed to say, Some things had changed, but the authors did a great job of correctly predicting the changes, If you see an older copy of this for sale cheap and you want to learn Ruby, don't hesitate to buy it, It's still completely relevant in,

I did actually read the entire second half of the book the builtin class/module and standard library reference, Of course, it was slow and boring and I'm still going to have to look most of this stuff up later when I need it, However, I strongly believe there is a huge advantage to knowing something is possible even if you don't remember quite how to do it, In our modern era of instant reference material online, knowing what to look up, what it's called is more than half the battle,

Ruby has so much stuff built in, it's almost ridiculous in a good way, A lot of it is very Unixoriented no wonder Ruby can be such a pain to install on Windows it wants to bring an entire POSIX environment with it!.
Ruby clobbers Perl in every possible category and looks good doing it, I can't believe it took me this long to join the fun!

I use Ruby almost daily now, It and this book were everything I could have reasonably asked for,

Weird trivia: the entire lastpages starting at Appendix D, continuing through the Index and including the page of advertisements for other Pragmatic Bookshelf titles was repeated at the end of my book.
The binding is clearly the correct size, so I imagine a lot of copies went out this way, Epic copy/paste mistake.