Programming Ruby
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Programming Ruby | |
Author | Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andrew Hunt |
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Country | United States of America |
Publisher | Pragmatic Programmers |
Publication date | 22 Oct 2004 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 864 pages (second edition) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-97-451405-5 |
Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The Pickaxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.
The complete first edition of this book is freely available at Ruby Central, under the Open Publication License v1.0, and was published by Addison-Wesley. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
[edit] External links
- First edition (for online reading) at RubyCentral
- Second edition at The Pragmatic Programmers