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The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. Whether the topic is simple or tough, the book's easy-to-follow examples and explanations will give you immediate confidence as you build your Ruby programming skills. Along the way, the reader is introduced to numerous tools included in the standard Ruby distribution—tools like the task manager Rake and the interactive Ruby console-based interpreter Irb—that facilitate Ruby development and make it an integrated and pleasant experience.
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Michael Drinkwine Sr
reviewed Well-Grounded Rubyist on October 13, 2010 Well-Grounded Rubyist
If you are new to Ruby, this may very well be the book you are looking for, since the author was really serious about the well-grounded in the title. Together the first six chapters form Part 1, aptly called Ruby Foundations. Here youll learn about objects, modules, classes, self and control-flow techniques. Although this part may not be the most interesting for more experienced Rubyists, its certainly well-written and manages to present a lot of very fundamental Ruby right at the beginning. True, at first I was a bit surprised to see that singleton methods were implicitly introduced before classes, but when you follow the authors logic, it all makes a lot of sense. What I really like about this approach is that it exposes the reader to concepts needed for some quite advanced Ruby coding right away, and in a very light-hearted and natural manner. Well done!
Part 2 (Built-in classes and modules) covers everything from strings, over symbols to regular expressions and file I/O. What I really like about this part is that the author dedicated two whole chapters to collections and iterators/enumerators, which are essential for everyone striving to become fluent in Ruby.
Last but not least Part 3 (Ruby dynamics) talks about singleton methods, procs, lambdas, Symbol#to_proc, the various eval methods, bindings and introspection, thus equipping the reader with all the necessary tools for metaprogramming, one of the many things that make Ruby that sexy little beast it is.
Oh yeah, since I didnt mention this before, The Well-Grounded Rubyist covers Ruby 1.9.1, which means youll learn about the coolest Ruby around. Dont worry though, most of what you read will also apply to 1.8.6, but isnt it about time that we all slowly moved on?
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