Ruby Way- The Description:

Ruby Way, The review:
5 stars (Excellent Book) - A great book on Ruby. It's getting a bit long in the tooth, but it's still well worth the time and money. I keep hearing rumours of a second edition ... PLEASE!
3 stars (Not bad) - I would have liked this book in the first few week or two when I was just learning Ruby, but I got this book after I had hacked some thousand lines of Ruby and read Dave Thomas's PickAxe II, and thus did not end up finding this book to be very useful.



This would be good to lend to a "Ruby nuby" but overall seems to lack true depth. Nevertheless, it's a handy guide for beginners who would like a cookbook style baedeker.
5 stars (1 of 3 Essential / Important Ruby books) - This, along w/Thomas/Hunt's & Slagell's books, both of which contain many fairly deep levels of abstraction using databases, map (collect), UNIX process monitoring & basic class libraries, when compared to what you have to do in python. Python requirea you start altering interpreter's Class & Inheritance behavior in many different ways.