Programming Books

The Best Ruby Books

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   9 Rankings

   Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

   by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt

   Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer'...
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   6 Rankings

   The Ruby Way

   by Hal Fulton

   Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.
   The Ruby Way takes a "how-to" approach to Ruby programming with the bulk of the material consisting of more than 400...
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   3 Rankings

   Ruby Cookbook

   by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson

   Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects.
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   3 Rankings

   Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

   by David Black

   The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can't tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language.

   Ruby for Rails, written by Ruby expert David Black (with a forward by David H...