{"id":101,"date":"2006-07-25T20:57:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-programming-ruby\/"},"modified":"2006-07-25T20:59:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T01:59:49","slug":"book-review-programming-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/book-review-programming-ruby\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Programming Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Pragmatic Programmers&#8217; Guide<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the famous &#8216;PickAxe&#8217; book that Ruby nerds talk about. A very well written book that is concise and to the point.<\/p>\n<div><iframe scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=wwwmontrealma-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0974514055&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\">&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;\/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; <\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A COUPLE OF COMMENTS:<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those books that reads very well. I had a hard time putting it down even though the coverage was deep &#8211; you&#8217;ll learn a lot about Ruby and maybe more about programming in general.<\/p>\n<p>I never give the TOC of a book (that you can easily look up,) but I should mention 2 major divisions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Part 1 is a tutorial that leads you through the core Ruby language.<\/li>\n<li>Part 2 goes into the Ruby environment &#8211; the tools that you have available with Ruby. There&#8217;s a lot and they work well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is much more (advance Ruby concepts, Ruby reference) but I will leave that for you to look into.<\/p>\n<p>FINAL COMMENTS:<\/p>\n<p>What can I say &#8230; if you are using Ruby or you want to learn Ruby, you need to get this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pragmatic Programmers&#8217; Guide This is the famous &#8216;PickAxe&#8217; book that Ruby nerds talk about. A very well written book that is concise and to the point. &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;\/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; A COUPLE OF COMMENTS: This is one of those books that reads very well. I had a hard time putting it down even though the coverage was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}