Lost foxes in Chapter 6. Downtown. Such juicy metaprogramming and class design!
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At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again.
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This is just a small Ruby book. It wont crush you. Its light as a feather (because I havent finished it yethehe). And theres a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.
But Don't Read This One!
Whys (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike License. So, yes, please distribute it and print it and read it leisurely in your housecoat. In fact, there will be a contest at the end of the book for Best Housecoat. Its a coveted award and you should feel honored to even read about it! (Especially if you are reading about it in your soon-to-be-prize-winning housecoat.)
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Ill try not to feel utterly rejected if this book doesnt capture your fancy. I might experience a few long days of emptiness, accompanied with profuse weeping, but other than that Ill be fine. Its at least comforting to know that the following fine texts cover my topic and will doubtless fill you with Ruby lust:
- Learning to Program
- A very basic, ground-level tutorial for the beginner to Ruby. By Chris Pine.
- Programming Ruby
- The original tome and complete reference for Ruby. By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt (also known as The Pickaxe)
- A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects
- Lovely little in-progress work to teach Ruby purely with simple code examples. By Brian Marick.
- Ruby Users Guide
- A guide to learning Ruby (with code examples). By Matz, the creator of Ruby. Translated into English.
- Ruby Book List
- A current list of printed material covering Ruby.
- Ruby-Lang.org
- The official home page for the Ruby language.
Now, if you cant seem to find the contents link on the left-hand side of the page, then heres a link to the first page of the (Poignant) Guide. If you want to venture onto my other projects, go whytheluckystiff.net.
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