I second this. I've mentioned "Eloquent Ruby" several times to Rubyists as one of the best books I've read on Ruby. Russ Olsen makes difficult concepts digestib

I second this. I've mentioned "Eloquent Ruby" several times to Rubyists as one of the best books I've read on Ruby. Russ Olsen makes difficult concepts digestible. My only guess as to why it's relatively unknown in the Ruby world is that it's quite old. Perhaps a new edition could have fixed that?