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Can anyone comment on whether this book would be a better purchase compared to Cooper's Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional. http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr
by dzlobin 17y ago
Can anyone comment on whether this book would be a better purchase compared to Cooper's Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430223634/ref=pd_luc_sbs_02_02 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430223634/ref=pd_luc_sbs_0...
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- Dylanfm 17y agoThis book is really good. I had read the Pickaxe before I picked this one up, so I'm not sure whether it's a good introductory book for Ruby. I haven't read Beginning Ruby either, so I can't compare. Nonetheless, if you're going to be working with Ruby I definitely recommend getting this book at some point. Why not now when it's cheap?
- dzlobin 17y agoTrue, I was drawn to beginning ruby because it covered web application development and frameworks( both to an extent)
- pjonesdotca 17y agoWhile I understand your comment, as someone who's fortunate enough to be paid to program in Ruby, I find it a little sad that Ruby is considered mostly in Rails terms. While I was unemployed, one of the recruiters I was with mentioned that they referred to me as the "Ruby on Rails" guy. Which kinda sucked because they were only looking at jobs for me with "web" application. I turned around and wrote a FXRuby wrapper for ai4r that can be run on the desktop sort of as a reaction to show that Ruby can run on the desktop too.
- jhancock 17y agoDo you want "how to program?" or a "clear and concise guide to ruby?". If its the later, this fairly new O'Reilly "The Ruby Programming Language" is the only way to go.
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