Mark Bates - The Ruby Way Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming

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Sticking to its tried and tested formula of cutting right to the techniques the modern day Rubyist needs to know, the latest edition of The Ruby Way keeps its strong reputation going for the latest generation of the Ruby language.

Peter Cooper
Editor of Ruby Weekly

The authors excellent work and meticulous attention to detail continues in this latest update; this book remains an outstanding reference for the beginning Ruby programmeras well as the seasoned developer who needs a quick refresh on Ruby. Highly recommended for anyone interested in Ruby programming.

Kelvin Meeks
Enterprise Architect

Among other things, this book excels at explaining metaprogramming, one of the most interesting aspects of Ruby. Many of the early ideas for Rails were inspired by the first edition, especially what is now . It puts you on a rollercoaster ride between How could I use this? and This is so cool! Once you get on that rollercoaster, theres no turning back.

David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails,
Founder at Basecamp

The appearance of the second edition of this classic book is an exciting event for Rubyistsand for lovers of superb technical writing in general. Hal Fulton brings a lively erudition and an engaging, lucid style to bear on a thorough and meticulously exact exposition of Ruby. You palpably feel the presence of a teacher who knows a tremendous amount and really wants to help you know it too.

David Alan Black
Author of The Well-Grounded Rubyist

This is an excellent resource for gaining insight into how and why Ruby works. As someone who has worked with Ruby for several years, I still found it full of new tricks and techniques. Its accessible both as a straight read and as a reference that one can dip into and learn something new.

Chet Hendrickson
Agile software pioneer

Rubys a wonderful languagebut sometimes you just want to get something done. Hals book gives you the solution and teaches a good bit about why that solution is good Ruby.

Martin Fowler
Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks
Author of Patterns of Enterprise
Application Architecture

To my parents, without whom I would not be possible

Hal