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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 May 2019, at 12:24, Riccardo Tacconi <<a href="mailto:rtacconi@gmail.com" class="">rtacconi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">When I program in Ruby or Python I try to avoid OOP and use a more functional style. The book of Sandi Metz is probably the best book to do OOP with Ruby. However, I found <a href="http://www.clean-ruby.com/" class="">http://www.clean-ruby.com/</a> book quite good, it explores DCI and other techniques. Two books that use Ruby as programming language but are more on computing are:</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">1. Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity.</div><div class="">2. Understanding Computation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A general book on Ruby is Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas (pragmatic programmers).</div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 12:14, John Winters <<a href="mailto:john@sinodun.org.uk" class="">john@sinodun.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 13/05/2019 09:24, Edmond Lepedus wrote:<br class="">
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> Could you please recommend some good Ruby/Rails books?<br class="">
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I've had good results with all the books which I've had from The <br class="">
Pragmatic Bookshelf.<br class="">
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