The Well Grounded Rubyist

This book does do a good job of presenting information about Ruby. I am a novice learner and I was able to keep up.

The first two editions of this book had gotten rave reviews so when I wanted to re-learn Ruby I chose the third edition. I am very pleased with the choice! The Well Grounded Rubyist explains a lot of useful Ruby detail and usage in an engaging and fun way. Object Orientation is key to Ruby and the first few chapters bring your right in to it. Kudos to the authors!

Very good book about the Ruby programming language. It's deep on every aspect of the language. Totally recommended to learn the language or as a reference book.

This is a great book--great tone, great selection of topics, easy to ready, thoughtful examples. I have some objections to this genre of book, but I can't fault the authors for producing an excellent example of the genre. Here's my beef--it's hard to read this book as a beginning. It's also hard to read it as someone with a few years of experience in Ruby. There were a few delightfully rich pieces of new information in this book, and a few other areas where I learned more about something that I already knew. However, there were also a lot of boring "string.reverse will reverse a string" sort of examples that felt like a waste of my time. I have seen a few textbooks do a better job of highlighting which areas are best for beginnings, and which are best for more experienced readers. I wish this book had better organized its content in that way. From a content perspective, I think my only criticism is the lack of information on structures. There's one spot in the book where they foreshadow that they will talk more about structures, but then they never get around to it, as far as I can recall.

Excellent book for anybody interested in first learning or even wanting to go in depth in the Ruby language

One of the things I love about re-visiting language books is that no matter how long you've been programming in a language, there is always something more to learn. In this book lies the opportunity to dive deeper, grok something new, or just see what you've missed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Well-Grounded Rubyist. I loved the writing style, the format, and the insightful examples. Reading this book was a great tour of the things I love about Ruby like it's friendliness and it's object model. The Well-Grounded Rubyist goes into lots of wonderful and interesting language quirks. If you're just getting started with Ruby this book is for you. If you've been programming Ruby for years, this book is also for you! Hats off to everyone involved with this book. The Ruby community continues to be vibrant because of people like you.

I'm an experienced programmer starting my first job as a Rails developer. A friend lent me this book and now, a month into working with Rails, I wish this was the first Ruby book I had picked up. The bootstrapping section describes the language design at a level of detail that an experienced programmer like me wants. The endless tutorials on line wasted so much time. This is infinitely better. It should be your first book if starting Ruby with a strong programming background

The authors focus on teaching you how to write great Ruby. I learned Ruby 1.7 many years ago and still use Ruby periodically. Their book brought me up to speed on more modern approaches that Ruby supports. Highly recommended.

Generally a good reference book, but it seems to be missing some information. Chapters are divided into different sections, which themselves have different section, which is generally a good breakdown, as it gives you an easy overview of what is covered. However some sections say they will cover a topic which they actually don't. For example section 9.3.2 mentions it will cover removing items from a hash, but it only exmplains how to add and retrieve items, not how to remove them. This is the only example I've seen so far, but it's a pretty big oversight and dissapointing as I was hoping to use this as a comprehensive reference book for Ruby.

Book in pristine condition.

This book is fantastic and very in-depth. If you’re attempting to learn ruby—whether as a beginner or experienced programming coming from a different language—this book is an invaluable resource to solidifying your knowledge and grasping a deep understanding of the inner workings of the Ruby oop language. I am a relative newbie to the field of computer science and programming; I have attempted the journey of learning at a few points in my life but have never managed to continue and maintain what I’ve learned. For the past two months I have been making consistent progress and improvements, putting in what time I can between full-time work and family/girlfriend obligations. The Well-Grounded Rubyist has been an awesome resource to utilize since I received it. I’m currently in the midst of chapter 5 and have been working with the book for almost 3 weeks now. As a beginner, I’ve also been using Head First Ruby and I began a course on Udemy for Ruby on Rails. I’m the kind of person who both loves learning from a book and needs multiple resources to learn from at the same time to augment my studies. Having a few core sources to study from offers me a great range of perspectives and a coalescence of knowledge related to that specific field of study (which in this case is learning Ruby!). For whatever reason you, who may be now reading this, has decided to learn Ruby know this: this book is incredible! If you like learning from books than there probably isn’t any better bang for your buck for getting a truly comprehensive, detailed look at the structure of Ruby. If you are a complete beginner, as I basically was not too long ago, then good luck to you. This book can be tackled by a beginner, but also check out free resources online such as The Odin Project, or maybe look up some courses on Udemy or Treehouse. There are many other great beginning books to look at, such as Head First Ruby but this one will really go in-depth on that study. Good luck to you, good luck to me! And thank you David A. Black and Joseph Leo III for this awesome book!! I will update this review in a couple months with a progress report and any further insights I may have. Edit: My progress report 4 years later is that I gave up on learning the Ruby language and instead focused on JavaScript.

Extrem gut und ansprechend, perfekt, um sich wirklich einzuarbeiten

This book builds a solid foundation for any aspiring ruby developer. It contains no quick and useless tutorials, but introduces the main ideas in a comprehensive way. The author does not assume any ruby knowledge from the reader at all, but any basic programming knowledge certainly helps to read the book efficiently.