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The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Covers Ruby 1.9.1
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4.30 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition
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Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
score: 799,
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8 people voted
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Eloquent Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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Russ Olsen (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
score: 596,
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Design Patterns in Ruby
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Russ Olsen (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 813 ratings
score: 593,
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6 people voted
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The Rails Way
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3.85 avg rating — 271 ratings
score: 496,
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5 people voted
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
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4.53 avg rating — 2,800 ratings
score: 496,
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Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros
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4.31 avg rating — 778 ratings
score: 395,
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4 people voted
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Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example
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Michael Hartl (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 495 ratings
score: 388,
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4 people voted
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The Rails 3 Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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3.91 avg rating — 288 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2, 4th Edition
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Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Refactoring: Ruby Edition
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Jay Fields (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 8,780 ratings
score: 292,
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Learn to Program
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4.13 avg rating — 546 ratings
score: 197,
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The Ruby Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)
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3.91 avg rating — 336 ratings
score: 196,
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Ruby Best Practices: Increase Your Productivity - Write Better Code
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Gregory T. Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 168 ratings
score: 196,
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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
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Dave Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 1,984 ratings
score: 195,
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99 Bottles of OOP
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4.55 avg rating — 662 ratings
score: 194,
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Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers
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3.79 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 192,
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Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby
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3.58 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your SPuter, Simplify Your Life
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David Bryant Copeland (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 109 ratings
score: 99,
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RubyMotion
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3.79 avg rating — 33 ratings
score: 97,
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Sep 11, 2008 10:13AM
Dave thomas, while an entertaining author, is not a very good programmer in my opinion
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