Programming Ruby

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The "best way" depends on your current skills, really. Ordered by increasing levels of programming skill, I'd say you should start with one of the following: 1. Learn to Program by Chris Pine 2. Everyday Scripting with Ruby by Brian Marick 3. Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt An excellent book to build your skills and internalize the common Ruby idioms is The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton. As others have mentioned, Agile Web Development with Rails is The Book to use for learning Rails. Of the above, the only book I don't have in one form or another is Chris Pine's (because it is, frankly, well below my skill level). There's an online tutorial by the same name, by the same guy, that can perhaps serve as a substitute -- but the book is much more complete, so if that's suitable to your skill level, I…

…ms, operating systems, frameworks, industry commentary, business/startup-related, etc. Below are my favorites (in no particular order), what other "greats" am I missing? The Art of Computer Programming (three volumes + fascicles) - Knuth (aka TAOCP) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson and Sussman (aka SICP, aka The Wizard Book) Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (aka CLRS) Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides The C Programming Language - Kernighan, Ritchie The C++ Programming Language - Stroustrup The Scheme Programming Language - Dybvig Practical Common LISP - Seibel Programming Perl - Wall, Christiansen and Orwant ANSI Common Lisp - Graham Refactoring - Fowler UML Distilled - Fowler Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sisper Information Theory, Inference, and Learni…

… using it. That's particularly true in the case of RoR, since it's very geared towards fast prototyping. If you don't know Ruby, get the pickaxe book. I'd also recommend Agile Web Development with Rails: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-Pragmatic-Programmers... http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-2nd/dp/097... Also check out PeepCode; it gets rave reviews: http://peepcode.com/