The Well-Grounded Rubyist 3rd Edition

Very good book about the Ruby programming language. It's deep on every aspect of the language. Totally recommended to learn the language or as a reference book.

This book does do a good job of presenting information about Ruby. I am a novice learner and I was able to keep up.

The first two editions of this book had gotten rave reviews so when I wanted to re-learn Ruby I chose the third edition. I am very pleased with the choice! The Well Grounded Rubyist explains a lot of useful Ruby detail and usage in an engaging and fun way. Object Orientation is key to Ruby and the first few chapters bring your right in to it. Kudos to the authors!

Excellent book for anybody interested in first learning or even wanting to go in depth in the Ruby language

This is a great book--great tone, great selection of topics, easy to ready, thoughtful examples. I have some objections to this genre of book, but I can't fault the authors for producing an excellent example of the genre.Here's my beef--it's hard to read this book as a beginning. It's also hard to read it as someone with a few years of experience in Ruby. There were a few delightfully rich pieces of new information in this book, and a few other areas where I learned more about something that I already knew. However, there were also a lot of boring "string.reverse will reverse a string" sort of examples that felt like a waste of my time.I have seen a few textbooks do a better job of highlighting which areas are best for beginnings, and which are best for more experienced readers. I wish this book had better organized its content in that way.From a content perspective, I think my only criticism is the lack of information on structures. There's one spot in the book where they foreshadow that they will talk more about structures, but then they never get around to it, as far as I can recall.

One of the things I love about re-visiting language books is that no matter how long you've been programming in a language, there is always something more to learn. In this book lies the opportunity to dive deeper, grok something new, or just see what you've missed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Well-Grounded Rubyist. I loved the writing style, the format, and the insightful examples. Reading this book was a great tour of the things I love about Ruby like it's friendliness and it's object model. The Well-Grounded Rubyist goes into lots of wonderful and interesting language quirks. If you're just getting started with Ruby this book is for you. If you've been programming Ruby for years, this book is also for you! Hats off to everyone involved with this book. The Ruby community continues to be vibrant because of people like you.

I'm an experienced programmer starting my first job as a Rails developer. A friend lent me this book and now, a month into working with Rails, I wish this was the first Ruby book I had picked up.The bootstrapping section describes the language design at a level of detail that an experienced programmer like me wants. The endless tutorials on line wasted so much time. This is infinitely better. It should be your first book if starting Ruby with a strong programming background

The authors focus on teaching you how to write great Ruby. I learned Ruby 1.7 many years ago and still use Ruby periodically. Their book brought me up to speed on more modern approaches that Ruby supports. Highly recommended.