false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156922821m/515.jpg 515 2 Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, <i>Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide</i>.<br /> <br /> Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: <ul><li>An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. </li><li>The definitive reference to the language. </li><li>Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods </li><li>Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries.</li></ul><br /> <br /> If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems, and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing.<br /> <br /> This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks 345 1 10 2004 Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition total:181|5:55|4:89|3:30|2:7|1:0| 181 735 318 23 4 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:43:26 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:45:46 -0800 2009
Um...right, about the book: I like it, seems pretty clear and goes through t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 20 20:09:38 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 20:13:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 22:58:35 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 00:17:24 -0700 2007
Javascript: too wordy, too many f*%king loops and punctuation, mostly front end, can be used for some programming.

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Now that I have I've realized that it's a great resource for things but the first part of the book where Ruby is described in a tutorial style was totally useless to me. The examples were a bi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 20 09:27:23 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 09:28:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 17:21:08 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 17:24:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Sep 19 17:32:52 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 17:34:18 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 11 10:48:49 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 10:51:11 -0700 2007
but i wasn't that impressed with the book itself. it works fine as a reference book and an introduction to the language, but it's no better or wor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed May 30 16:46:32 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 27 07:40:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue May 29 09:35:49 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 10:35:44 -0700 2007 SCTV."]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 12:14:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 09:47:06 -0700 2009 The key reference for understanding the Ruby programming language. If you want to be up-to-speed on Ruby you've got to have this book. I also have the PDF version which is great to have if you're not by your bookshelf.]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 30 18:52:14 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 01 13:53:58 -0800 2009 The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas (2004)]]> 5 0 false false Sun Oct 26 16:45:10 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 16:45:54 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jun 17 18:22:22 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 18:23:37 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue May 20 08:14:21 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 08:14:49 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Mar 03 19:01:11 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 19:01:11 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun Jul 01 22:55:10 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 22:55:51 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Mar 10 21:18:29 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 21:20:05 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Apr 15 21:02:45 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 15 21:03:44 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Thu May 15 21:10:37 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 21:10:52 -0700 2008 http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/Programming...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=515