[LRUG] Recomended Ruby Books

[Jasim A Basheer]

Props to both Practical Object Oriented Development in Ruby and Eloquent
Ruby. Beautiful books with a lot of value.

Growing Rails Applications in Practice (https://leanpub.com/growing-rails)
is the book to get if you are a Rails developer. It covers ground that a
Rails developer has to otherwise learn over a few years of painful
experience. Namespaces to organize code and keep your individual objects
(especially ActiveRecord models) thin, clean terse controllers, service
objects and form objects, managing stylesheets etc. The book is worth the
money just for the chapter on Namespaces.



On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Ben Ridgway <benridgway83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby is excellent and has a good intro to
> metaprogramming in ruby at the end. You should be able to find a copy
> online...
>
> Ben
>
>
> On 5 Sep 2014, at 18:18, Artan Sinani <artisinani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My picks:
>
> - Build Awesome Command Line Applications in Ruby
> - Metaprogramming Ruby (a bit more advanced, but great for understanding
> Ruby's object model)
>
>
>
>
> LugoLabs.com <http://lugolabs.com>
>
>
> On 5 September 2014 17:54, Najaf Ali <ali at happybearsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> David A. Black's *The Well-Grounded Rubyist*
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Peter M Souter <p.morsou at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> For a long time I've been using Ruby scripting or building on top of
>>> other people's pre- existing applications so I've just followed the
>>> pre-existing architecture and structure that someone else had chosen.
>>>
>>> But recently I've been doing more personal projects in Ruby, and I've
>>> realised whilst I've picked up a few good practises on the way, I could
>>> probably learn more about the specifics.
>>>
>>> Has anyone got any good Ruby specific books to recommend? Preferably
>>> available electronically?
>>>
>>> So far I've picked up:
>>>
>>> Confident Ruby
>>> Exceptional Ruby
>>> Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
>>> Design Patterns in Ruby.
>>> The Cucumber Book
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
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