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The Best Book For Learning Ruby?

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I have working with Rails now for almost a year and coming from a Java background I found the learning curve real easy and could get into the framework pretty easy. But, I want to learn more about the language that powers the framework so, what is the best book to learn Ruby?

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I learned Ruby by jumping into rails and building a small app. I learned how through various blogs, tutorials and railscasts. Then I later picked up Matz book and gained a deeper understanding of Ruby.

I've more recently begun to dig through the rails source to get a better understanding of what happening in the background and how certain things are achieved with pure Ruby.

I really enjoy the Merb source code for that. There's more rigor in Merb than Rails, though it's less helpful if you're mostly doing Rails stuff.

Thanks for your insightful answer

I recommend just looking at the way others have used Ruby via various projects on github -- and then review the chapters in the pickaxe book to understand exactly how the syntax works.

I think the new O'Reilly book co-written by Matz is probably a great choice too, though I haven't read it yet.

It seems I should really check out the new title from O'Reilly, thanks folks

The Pickaxe Book http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby

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