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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117
EAN: 9780596516178
ISBN: 0596516177
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 446
Publication Date: January 25, 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is devoted to Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language.
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This is a fantastic book for beginning rubyists that have a decent programming background with another language. I would still recommend reading the Pick Axe, but once your done with that, get ready to blow your mind with all the cool things this book shows you that they couldn't fit into the Pick Axe. Its clear explanations and code examples make it a breeze to go through. I wish more programming books where written like this. It is definitely worth the price of admission. You won't be sorry
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feels like i am reading the C programming language book by K&R ... the style is very similar ... although i am in for a paradigm shift ... also, my way of learning is to try to grasp it all at once ... so, i am a bit slower than (a lot actually)i had expected to finish the book ... still only in the 4th chapter after 2 weeks
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I picked this book up at a local Borders. As with most OReily books, it is well done.
Each section of the book is well written, and most important to me, there are cogent examples through out, as well as in depth explanations of various facets of not only 1.8.x but 1.9 where they differ.
I initially learned Ruby from a "Beginning" book about 2 years ago. This book helped take my knowledge to the next level, so certainly for that reason alone, it is highly recommended. But additionally, it serves as a great reference.
For me, it's a must have addition to my Ruby Library. Recommended.
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One of the best programming books that i've read in a long time. Its an easy read for any level programmer.
Ruby was my first dynamic language, and I almost don't want to go back to anything else!
The book contains many great examples, clearly explained.
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This is such a great book... The only shame is it took so long to come out. Like many others I struggled through the Pickaxe (a so-so book, to be avoided), then discovered enlightenment in Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way.
This book is all of those books and more. Everything a good programmer needs to kick butt in Ruby is in the 400 pages of this tome. It is extremely readable. I was able to get through it in about a week and a half, and loved every minute of it.
This is the only book you will ever need for Ruby.
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