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This category holds links to books, paper or online, on the Ruby programming language. For other topics involving ruby gem stones, please see the proper directory category.

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• Design Patterns in Ruby

  http://safari.awprofessional.com/9780321490452/
  By Russ Olsen; Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007, ISBN 9780321490452. Shows smart ways to solve many problems Ruby developers often find; classic patterns plus newer ones with special Ruby value.

• Making Use of Ruby

  http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047121972X.html
  By Suresh Mahadevan; John Wiley and Sons, 2002, ISBN 047121972X. Hands-on full introduction, how to save much time, many real-world examples, how to move beyond examples to specific tasks, end-of-chapter reviews, exercises.

• Programming Ruby: Ruby Tuesday

  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/99126/
  Interview with Programming Ruby authors, The Pragmatic Programmers. Amazon.com.

• Ruby Cookbook

  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523695/
  By Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson; O'Reilly, 2006, ISBN 0596523696. From data structures to algorithms to integrating with new technologies; when solving a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in here. O'Reilly Media.

• Ruby In A Nutshell

  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002145/
  By Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto; O'Reilly and Associates, 2001, ISBN 0596002149. By programmer, and Ruby creator; concise broad reference guide assumes reader knows programming. [O'Reilly and Associates]

• The Ruby Programming Language

  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/
  David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matz Matsumoto, why the lucky stiff; O'Reilly Media, 2008, ISBN 9780596516178. Authoritative guide, covers versions 1.9, 1.8; shows Ruby's lexical structure, primary expressions, conditionals, syntax, classes, data they manipulate.

• The Ruby Way: What is Ruby?

  http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=27359&rl=1
  Brief article explains main aspects, by Hal Fulton.

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