Book of Ruby

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Join tens of thousands of self-taught programmers and learn to program professionally. The path is there. Will you take it? Review "Conventional wisdom has suggested that the so-called 'Pick-Axe Book' Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas is so good that there is no room for other options. No Starch Press; 1 edition July 11, Language: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video. Share your thoughts with other customers.

Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention language programming examples example learn chapters advanced code sections important chapter coding rails topics experienced topic introduction follow later useful. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. One person found this helpful. Too many simple things missing, just look through the index. Nice try but it could have used input from a few reviewers before hitting the presses. No Starch Press provided me a free copy for review.

Ruby is a programming language that I always liked. When "No Starch Press" offered me the opportunity to review "The Book of Ruby" I was curious because the two previous books I've read from them were simply excellent. I already have four books on Ruby so I was wondering how this one could compare to those but most important, if it would follow the same "fun style" as Land of Lisp and Learn You a Haskell.

After reading the book, unfortunately, my feelings are mixed. The book is well-written, with a good structure, covering beginner topics to advanced ones. It contains 20 chapters without the introduction and 4 appendixes. The initial chapters focus on the basics of the Ruby language. The later ones focus on more advanced parts of Ruby and more specific topics, for example, debugging and Ruby on Rails. This is a positive aspect of the book since for someone starting with Ruby can have in a single source access to several important topics. The chapters also have a "Digging Deeper" section at the end, presenting interesting discussions of the topic at hand.

Also a nice read was the last chapter since it deals with the dynamic aspects of the language use of eval, etc.

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However, the book has some issues. The most important one is about the coding style, or the lack of it. The book is not consistent, does not follow Ruby conventions and it shows quite easily. I believe this is bad for a novice programmer in the language since it makes examples harder to understand, not to mention other things.

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Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While other books focus on Ruby's trendier features, The Book. A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous While other books focus on Ruby's trendier features, The Book of Ruby reveals the secret inner workings of one of the.

Second, the book does not have the same "fun style" as the other No Starch Press books. This is a not problem per se but since the book subtitle is "A hands-on guide for the adventurous", the reader is more or less mislead to think it follows the other books "fun style". Third, the examples are too contrived and a few project ideas are missing. Ruby is a very nice language and with it you can do lots of things without writing lots of lines. So, it is a little disappointing that a book that aims itself for someone that wants to learn the language but not programming from scratch is not offered with some pointers in how to expand what is learning.

To conclude, the book is nice but probably is not the best book for a complete novice and not the best ruby book. O'Reilly Publishing provided me access to an electronic copy of this book for review purposes.

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Thanks to Ruby on Rails, the Ruby programming language is one of the most popular languages at the moment to learn. But according to the author you can't just jump into Rails without first learning a bit of Ruby and thus this book was born. It's a very complete book, it explain you the basics of ruby and teach you the difference between the 1. It's a very good book to start with ruby. Jan 02, Jose rated it really liked it.

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