The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan

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The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language ""bibles"" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro ""Matz"" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, show more which has been expanded an show less

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"[I]t's a tour de force through how to program using Ruby and one that has the full contribution from and blessing of the programming language's creator. ... An absolute steal at the price.... 10/10"

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David Flanagan

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David Flanagan graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a consulting computer programmer, user interface designer and trainer. His books include X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual and Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI Design and Programming with the Xmt Library. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Original publication date: 2008-02-04
First words: Ruby is a dynamic programming language with a complex but expressive grammar and a core class library with a rich and powerful API.
Blurbers: Phoenix, Evan

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The Ruby Programming Language

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