Beginning Ruby

As always I’m pretty late in writing my book reviews. This time it’s been well over 6 months since I finished reading the book “Beginning Ruby” (first edition) by Peter Cooper. I have to say is this by far the best Ruby book that I’ve read so far. (This is out of a 13 book collection that I own on Ruby programming.) I’ve always been a fan of Apress “Beginning” title’s, and this book is definitely not the exception. Although this book is technically considered for beginning/intermediate programmers wanting to dive to the wonderful world of Ruby, I feel this book is perfect for all levels of programming expertise. The authors does a wonderful job explain the concepts of each chapter and slowly building you to what will be the next chapter. Like Apress’ “Beginning Perl” book help me tremendously in learning the language, I have to say this book taught how to program in Ruby. I’ll definitely come back to this book and use as a reference. Anyone new or already experienced using Ruby, will definitely benefit from reading this book. I hope this book (all editions) gets the high praise from the Ruby community, which it deserves, as in my eyes this is a classic programming book and I see this title as the Llama/Camel book for the Ruby World.

Rating: 5/5

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (2nd Edition)

• Chapter 1: Let’s Get it Started: Installing Ruby
• Chapter 2: Programming == Joy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation
• Chapter 3: Ruby’s Building Blocks: Data, Expressions and Flow Control
• Chapter 4: Developing a Basic Ruby Application
• Chapter 5: The Ruby Ecosystem
• Chapter 6: Classes, Objects, and Modules
• Chapter 7: Projects and Libraries
• Chapter 8: Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing
• Chapter 9: Files and Databases
• Chapter 10: Deploying Ruby Applications and Libraries
• Chapter 11: Advance Ruby Features
• Chapter 12: Tying it Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application
• Chapter 13: Ruby on Rails: Ruby’s Killer App
• Chapter 14: Ruby and the Internet
• Chapter 15: Networking, Sockets, and Daemons
• Chapter 16: Useful Ruby Libraries and Gems

Tags: [ ruby ]

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