Hello, Forgive me for the shameless self-promotion, but if you are coming to Ruby from Rails, perhaps my little slide presentation http://www.nimblecode.com/articles/2006/04/25/rubyisms-in-rails might also be helpful. I am in the process of turning this into a slightly expanded ebook of 30 pages for Addison-Wesley as well, available this month. Okay, enough of the self-promotion. David Black has also written a book on Ruby for Rails that is worth checking out. Jake On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:46 AM, uncutstone wu wrote: > > As ruby popularity growing, more and more newbie programmer need a way > to improve their ruby ability effectively. Reading examplar code > should > be a good way to achieve that goal. Are there somebody collecting and > cleansing ruby code idioms ? Or somebody is writing a book like > effective C++ or effective Java? > > I have programmed with Ruby for half a year , and I have read Pickaxe, > Agile web development with Rails , Ruby developerÃÔ guide, the Ruby > way > etc. But there isnÃÕ a book can fill the gap. > > I am eagerly looking forward to such a book full of Ruby code idioms > which can also acts as a style guideline. > > I really think we need a ÅÆffective Ruby now. > > Best Regards. > > uncutstone > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >