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Ruby Best Practices
How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify y...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
June 23rd 2009
by O'Reilly Media
(first published June 11th 2009)
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Utter disappointment! I think the book got to be published just to grab a quick buck, while there was a huge ruby literature demand. It feels like almost no thought nor organisation was put into this publication. Some of the recommendations are actually now considered bad practices.
You are better off doing online research and reading blog posts than reading this book.
You are better off doing online research and reading blog posts than reading this book.
Provides suggestions for writing clean, bug-free, and efficient code. Unfortunately, the book itself isn't so clean, bug-free, and efficient. I can overlook the typos. Some of the suggestions are useful, but most of it is pretty basic stuff you'll find in other Ruby books. The author likes to dump chunks of code from his own open source projects (he couldn't shut up about Prawn) that make your head hurt, and then not explain much of it. It's hard to make Ruby boring, but this book pulled it off....more
Really enjoying this. It might be the best technical book I've ever read. It's also really encouraging that coming back to this book after reading a few of the chapters online when the book came out, I understand the more challenging topics a lot better now.
The second most sophisticated book about Ruby I've read (the first being Flanegan book). It focuses or real examples and covers a lot in depth. I wish it was available when I first started programming in Ruby.
It doesn't pretend to be encyclopedic in the manner of The Ruby Way. However, where sometimes I find The Ruby Way curtails topics just when they start to get interesting, Brown dives deep with Ruby Best Practices.
Clear examples are accompanied by thoughtful and full treatments of the subject at hand. It has particularly useful focus on "Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit", "Text Processing", "Functional Programming Techniques", and "Designing Beautiful APIs".
See "Two Ruby Books to Own" ... http://tar...more
Clear examples are accompanied by thoughtful and full treatments of the subject at hand. It has particularly useful focus on "Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit", "Text Processing", "Functional Programming Techniques", and "Designing Beautiful APIs".
See "Two Ruby Books to Own" ... http://tar...more
One of the best programming books I've ever read. Unfortunately, Ruby-specific!
Not bad - I learned some stuff, and I've been programming in Ruby for 4+ years.
Mar 17, 2010
Barry
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Note: I actually have the PDF of this. OSBook FTW!
Still relevant 4 years after it was published.
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Buddhika Laknath
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Very informative
If you have already coded in Ruby for a while, you definitely should check out "Ruby Best Practices". As the title suggests this is not about learning Ruby, it's about getting the most out of the language, for yourself as well as for potential collaborators and colleagues. No matter how long you've been doing Ruby, I'm almost certain you'll still pick up a little trick here and there.
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