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TonicX57	14 Sep, 2008 - 10:46 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 13 Sep, 2008 Posts: 64 My Contributions	What would you guys say are the best Ruby and Ruby on Rails books? I'm a total beginner, I've barely even touched the Ruby language before, and I've barely even done any programming at all. Thanks, -TonicX57
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MitkOK	RE: Best Book? 14 Sep, 2008 - 11:57 PM Post #2
D.I.C Regular Joined: 9 Aug, 2007 Posts: 356 Thanked: 19 times Dream Kudos: 250 My Contributions	I would recommend you: - For Ruby : the Pickaxe book and Ruby Way. - For Rails : the Rails Way and Agile Web Development with Rails.
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akozlik	RE: Best Book? 16 Sep, 2008 - 08:43 AM Post #3
D.I.C Addict Joined: 25 Feb, 2008 Posts: 774 Thanked: 38 times Dream Kudos: 800 My Contributions	The "Beginning . . ." series from Apress is great for pretty much any language you're trying to pick up. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional
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ennuikiller	RE: Best Book? 22 Feb, 2009 - 11:42 AM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 22 Feb, 2009 Posts: 2	Design Patterns in Ruby - Olsen The Ruby Programming Language - Flannagan If you get through these 2 books you'll be well on your way to ruby mastery! This post has been edited by ennuikiller: 22 Feb, 2009 - 11:45 AM
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Ryan Marfone	RE: Best Book? 25 Feb, 2009 - 08:19 PM Post #5
D.I.C Head Joined: 23 Feb, 2009 Posts: 87 Thanked: 5 times My Contributions	QUOTE(ennuikiller @ 22 Feb, 2009 - 11:42 AM) Design Patterns in Ruby - Olsen Agreed. This is an excellent book.
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qbass	RE: Best Book? 10 Mar, 2009 - 05:52 PM Post #6
New D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Mar, 2009 Posts: 3 My Contributions	Learn To Program by Chris Pine is one of the best beginning Ruby books I have ever read, and it's freely available online! It teaches basic programming concepts using Ruby. There are even Japanese, Russian, French, Danish and Brazilian Portuguese translations available.
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