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Ruby Cookbook |
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Ruby Cookbook Review |
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2006-11-30 20:32:49 |
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Brian Anderson
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I've looked at a couple programming “cookbooks” over the few years I've been programming, and none have ever really captured my attention. Most of them I found were lacking in useful recipes for novice programmers, or the recipes used an outdated code style or covered specific areas of a programming language. And with others, I just found it difficult to find useful tips or tricks.
The Ruby Cookbook however, provides fresh, easy to read recipes that are full of neat tips and awesome tricks. And it's all provided in an easy to read, and more importantly easy to find, format. Programmers from novice to highly experienced will find this book useful.
The book is laid out using general data types as chapters at first, then moves into more abstract topics such as code blocks and modules; databases and persistence; web services and task automation with Rake.
Start with the table of contents to learn about a specific area, or thumb your way through the index to find specific topics or that fast piece of code you need to complete your project. No matter how you use it, the Ruby Cookbook is a must have book for any Ruby or Ruby on Rails programmer.
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"This sort of book lives and dies by two criteria - the quality of the code and the usefulness of the recipe selection. Ruby Cookbook wins on both. "
--Tony Williams, Honestpuck.com
