ProgrammingRuby

Last edit March 25, 2006

Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmers Guide by AndrewHunt, ChadFowler, and DavidThomas (ISBN 0974514055)

Also known as the PickAxeBook because of the pickaxe on the cover.

The first edition of the book (for RubyLanguage 1.6) is available online as OpenContent at http://www.rubycentral.com/book/. Also with frames navigation at http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ and http://phrogz.net/programmingruby/.

Interestingly, if you check the Amazon page for the first edition (ISBN 0-201-71089-7), you will find (in addition to 3 reviews -- all five star, and KentBeck's glowing back cover review) that buyers of the book also bought:

ExtremeProgrammingInstalled (The XpSeries) by RonJeffries, et al.
PlanningExtremeProgramming (The XpSeries) by KentBeck, et al.
Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications Using Uml by RobertCecilMartin
WritingEffectiveUseCases (The Crystal Collection for Software Professionals [CrystalClearMethodology]) by AlistairCockburn

Something about great minds...?? -- JimRussell