At 7:18 PM +0900 10/15/06, Kyrre NygéÓd wrote:
> So anyway, how come nobody mentioned O'Reilly?
> I thought they were good at it!

Although I'm sure that O'Reilly has some books in the works,
their only Ruby/Rails book (that I know of) is

  Ruby in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
  Yukihiro Matsumoto, 2002

Although it is certainly authoritative (:-), it is not really
appropriate as an introductory text.


Here are some books I'd like to see:

  Algorithms in Ruby
  Robert Sedgewick, ???

    This would show how to implement assorted algorithms,
    using Ruby's peculiar control structures, etc.

  Higher Order Ruby
  Mark-Jason Dominus, ???

    This would take MJD's notions from Perl, where they
    are hard to implement, to Ruby, where they aren't.

  Programming in Ruby
  David Black

    This would be an "expanded subset" of "Ruby on Rails".
    It would teach programming, using Ruby as the language.

-r
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