Publisher Information

Authors: David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

ISBN: 0-201-71089-7

URL: www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html

Price: $42.95 US

The Good

• The book can be used as both a tutorial and a reference.
• It covers Ruby under a variety of settings (e.g., Linux, Windows, Web).
• It provides good examples for using the Tk widgets.

The Bad

• Occasionally it's difficult to find code required by samples.
• Program examples and text covering code blocks could be improved.
• Doesn't contain many examples of complete Ruby programs.

Resources

For more information on the Ruby language itself, you can go to www.ruby-lang.org and www.rubycentral.com or to the Ruby newsgroup at comp.lang.ruby. Parts of this book are also available on-line at its web site, www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html.