It's interesting. Programming ruby was one of the first english ruby
books and doesn't fall into the ruby (after rails popularity) money
grab.. My diatribe was not specifically with that book. Though I do
find it to be a bit redundant now that we have Matz' book.

Also the Ruby language is unique enough that it shouldn't be grokked
purely from a reference manual style book. There are deeper concepts
and paradigm shifts in ruby that go beyond your basic object oriented
and functional languages.

I am also not alone with my opinion:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/bookstore/

Of course the first edition is online for the OPS review:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

I still stand by my suggestions. Both TWGR and MR deal purely on
paradigm. Everything else seems like learning C from a book that
avoids showing your pointers or even worse never gets into data
structures.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:12 PM, James Edward Gray II
<james / graysoftinc.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Stu wrote:
>
>> The rest are crap or so called cookbooks created for a money grab a
>> couple of years ago.
>
> I definitely do not agree.  ¨Â ìïöå ÐòïçòáííéîÒõâù áîíáîù ïôèåòó>
> James Edward Gray II
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