[LRUG] Recomended Ruby Books

[Siddharth Sharma]

I particularly enjoyed Avdi Grimm's Confident Ruby. It's the closest, I
thought, to the zen of ruby and I think sets a good grounding for
programming in dynamic languages.


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Jasim A Basheer <jasim.ab at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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