<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>+1. Eloquent Ruby is one of the few tech books I've read cover to cover and enjoyed all the way through. It's a screencast, not a book, but you might also find Ruby Tapas useful for picking up Ruby idioms.<br><br><div>--</div>(Sent from phone. Please excuse: brevity, top posting, hilarious autocorrections.)</div><div><br>On Jun 2, 2015, at 5:17 AM, Lucas Mbiwe <<a href="mailto:lucas@geek4good.com">lucas@geek4good.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi Jay,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Welcome to the community!</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">On 2 June 2015 at 13:53:18, Jay Greasley (<a href="mailto:jay@firecomputing.co.uk">jay@firecomputing.co.uk</a>) wrote:</div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;">Thanks. I'm keen to understand Ruby first. I know my way round the mvc pattern, if not the Rails specifics. At this stage I don't know if Rails is overkill for the project so am aware of keeping a very open mind.</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>I've heard good things about The Well-Grounded Rubyist. So I'm sure picking up a copy of it wouldn't be a mistake.</p><p>I personally prefer Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olson, as it covers all the language specifics with a strong focus on idioms (“Write Code That Looks Like Ruby”). It even covers metaprogramming and touches on building gems (a bit outdated but the basics still apply).</p> <div id="bloop_sign_1433246952016804864" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- Lucas<br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a></span><br><span>Archives: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br><span>Manage your subscription: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/options.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br><span>List info: <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>