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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional,
SECOND EDITION
Dear Reader,
Beginning Ruby is the only book you’ll need to go from not knowing Ruby at all
to being proficient and confident enough to develop your own applications and
learn more about the specific areas that interest you. With just this book, you’ll
learn how to develop your own complete applications that can work online,
access databases, process files, and more.
Thanks to the popularity of the Ruby on Rails web application framework,
Ruby has rapidly become a major programming language in the last ten years,
roughly on a par with Python. Ruby is still growing and maturing, however, and
now is an especially good time to learn it. I’ve written this book in a way that lets
you quickly learn the language without being bamboozled with jargon, even if
you’ve only ever dabbled with programming before. I’ve also provided links to a
multitude of online resources and documentation to help you progress further.
My own Ruby learning experience is my motivation for writing this book. I
wanted to write a book that didn’t assume you’re already a dynamic language or
object-orientation expert. This book introduces the most basic of concepts, yet
moves quickly enough that you won’t need to skip too much if you’re already
familiar with certain areas. Most of the areas relevant to a professional Ruby
developer are covered, too—even those not directly related to the language,
such as database access and SQL.
From the start, my ambition has been to write a book to educate and encour-
age, rather than deliver dry facts. There are enough reference books out there,
but very few that will show you how to program with Ruby in a guided, narrated
way. This book not only shows you how to program with Ruby, it also teaches
you how the Ruby community works, where to find help, and how to “walk the
walk” and “talk the talk.”
Peter Cooper
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