On 4/4/06, Michael Trier <mtrier / gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for something akin to Stroustrup's C++ Programming
> Language or The Design and Evolution of C++ for Ruby.  I love
> Programming Ruby and it's a great resource, but not quiet deep enough
> on all of the internals.  There's Matz's book Ruby in a Nutshell.  I
> don't have that one, but I also heard that it's also somewhat an
> overview.  I'm making my way through Ruby Hacking Guide, and
> appreciate all the work everyone is doing on that, but it's not done
> and the machine translation is just too tough to get my head around.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for the best resource at the moment?


While it still might not be deep enough for you, I'm really enjoying
Ruby for Rails -- http://www.manning.com/books/black

I've not started chapter 17 yet, but it promises to be a guide to reading
Rails internals. I'd think that would help with reading Ruby internals
(to a degree).

Another great way to learn more is to look at ParseTree --
http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree/

Sean Carley's post about checkr and ParseTree is a good indicator
of what you can learn --
http://sean-carley.blogspot.com/2006/04/debugging-parsetree-or-walking-in.html
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>


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thanks,
-pate
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