The Ruby Way

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Summary: An excellent stepping stone
Review: The zippy stone works its magic. For the past few months i have been wanting to learn Ruby and when i browsed through this book in the book shop, i decided that i needn't wait any longer. Ever since then i have been reading this book in the subway, on my way to and forth from work. . I give this book 5 stars 'coz its an excellent tool for those entering the Ruby world. I am eagerly waiting for updates, cookbooks, pocket books and learning books.

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Summary: Why You'll Love This Book
Review: This book is a bit more advanced than the "Dave & Andy" book(Programming Ruby), but is well worth getting, whether as your first or second Ruby book. I has an amazing collection of simple but extremely useful "How to do (your common algorithm here)" pages that are a godsend to intermediate programmers like me. It also has a wealth of insight into advanced and esoteric language aspects. As a scientist, I really appreciated the author's objective and deep analysis of language topics. This is one of the best language books I've ever bought. If you're not comfortable reading about OO language topics, or if you're fairly new to computer languages in general, consider buying the "Programming Ruby" book as well, or instead. It's a more gentle introduction, and a great book, too.

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Summary: Why You'll Love This Book
Review: This book is a bit more advanced than the "Dave & Andy" book(Programming Ruby), but is well worth getting, whether as your first or second Ruby book. I has an amazing collection of simple but extremely useful "How to do (your common algorithm here)" pages that are a godsend to intermediate programmers like me. It also has a wealth of insight into advanced and esoteric language aspects. As a scientist, I really appreciated the author's objective and deep analysis of language topics. This is one of the best language books I've ever bought. If you're not comfortable reading about OO language topics, or if you're fairly new to computer languages in general, consider buying the "Programming Ruby" book as well, or instead. It's a more gentle introduction, and a great book, too.

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Summary: A very good book
Review: This book is very good. It covers a lot of important and interesting topics like Ruby's OOP featurs, Gtk+, Fox, Threads, Network Programming and more.
The Text is easy to follow and the examples are also easy to understand. Most of the stuff is presented in a "How do I XYZ" manner which makes the book ideal for looking up all the things a Ruby programmer needs while working with this wonderful programming language. In my opionon a must have for any Ruby Fan.

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Summary: 1 of 3 Essential / Important Ruby books
Review: This, along w/Thomas/Hunt's & Slagell's books, both of which contain many fairly deep levels of abstraction using databases, map (collect), UNIX process monitoring & basic class libraries, when compared to what you have to do in python.

Python requirea you start altering interpreter's Class & Inheritance behavior in many different ways.