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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition List Price: $44.95 Amazon.com's Price: $29.67 You Save: $15.28 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780974514055 Edition: 2nd Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0974514055 Label: Pragmatic Bookshelf Manufacturer: Pragmatic Bookshelf Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 829 Publication Date: October 01, 2004 Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf Studio: Pragmatic Bookshelf Accessories:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. Now in its Second Edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. The definitive reference to the language. Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries. If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the new and expanded content, including: enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the world-wide web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Excellent Book - Must Have for any Ruby DeveloperFirst and foremost, this book isn't a beginners guide to ruby, it doesn't hold your hand from "Hello, world", and it expects you to already know the basics of programming. Also, this book isn't a tutorial, it's a reference book first and foremost, and while it *does* guide you through some of ruby's basics that's not the primary intent. While there are excellent tutorials for learning ruby on the web, and excellent documentation for the standard library as well, Programming Ruby is something every ... Read More Rating: - Good StuffIt's good enough that I refer to it instead of Google for the more mundane bits. Rating: - This book gets me home late!This is "the book" if you want to learn Ruby. I had my share of the web-search-print-and-try approach to get a taste on Ruby, and after reading this book I can say I haven't been so pleased to learn a programming language in a while. This book it's proof of what the "Ruby way" is. It doesn't just walk you through the details, dos and don'ts of the programming language, it allows the reader to grasp the practice of the "Ruby way" of doing things. And it's a clean, elegant, yet powerful way! Read More Rating:  - So-soAfter having just finished reading the excellent "Programming in C" by Stephen Kochan, I find "Programming Ruby" a bit lackluster. Like a previous reveiwer noted, the Jukebox example in the beginning several chapters is contrived, and frankly, annoying. Many of the code snippets are dependent on one another and it's not intuitive to figure out how they all come together to make a program, especially when one snippet is given and then an alternate is immediately provided - neither of which can exist ... Read More Rating:  - not that goodSorry but to me this book is not that good. I feel like the authors lack real programming experience. The JukeBox example seems out of a bad OO book, and I found few real-life examples. As a comparison I also recently red 'Dive into Python' from M. Pilgrim and wow! the difference was striking. I wish I could find a book like that on Ruby. 
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