looking for a good ruby book

rubyonrails-talk
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I'm pretty solid on the rails framework, but I would like to focus on the actually ruby language. does anyone know of any good ruby books? Preferably for the rails developer?

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Do you have the PickAxe book? It is pretty much the defacto standard:

Jimmy Palmer wrote:

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I learned ruby with the aid of this book:

Dave Thomas wrote the book with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt. I think, they're competent practitioners in ruby...

Jimmy Palmer wrote:

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William Pratt wrote: >

This is exactly the book that I was going to recommend!

jackster.mobi

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The following was written for rails practitioners learning ruby: