 | Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, 2nd Edition (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by Peter Cooper
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £20.26 An excellent all-rounder. If you only want to buy one book to get started, this is the best choice.
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 | Learn to Program: Using Ruby (Facets of Ruby) by Chris Pine
Buy new: £11.18 / Used from: £10.15 I would happily recommend this to anyone completely new to programming - it is the best introduction that I've read (for any language).
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 | The Well-Grounded Rubyist: Get the ebook FREE! by David Black
Buy new: £18.19 / Used from: £21.59 Get this book once you've learned the basics of Ruby, and want to go further. It might seem a bit heavy for a beginner, because it is scrupulously thorough.
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 | Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas
Buy new: £21.16 / Used from: £9.68 A very useful working reference, but not the best tutorial - make this your second or third Ruby book
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 | Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer (Books for Professionals by Professionals) by Topher Cyll
Buy new: £29.44 / Used from: £1.50 This is a fun way to practice - the author walks you through a set of neat little projects, and manages to fit in some advanced concepts along the way
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 | Simply Rails 2 by Patrick Lenz
Buy new: £17.66 / Used from: £24.20 This is a well-regarded and current introduction to Ruby's most popular Web framework. Many Rails books around were actually written for version 1 - buyer beware!
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 | The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt
Buy new: £15.91 / Used from: £12.97 Every programmer should know this classic book, but the ideas that it teaches have become absolutely pervasive in the Ruby community
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 | Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) by Russ Olsen
Buy new: £20.73 / Used from: £21.00 Get this when you start to develop larger and more complex systems: you will be glad that you did
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 | Ruby Best Practices by Gregory Brown
Buy new: £13.61 / Used from: £14.66 Seems to provide a lot of good advice.
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 | Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by André Ben Hamou
Buy new: £33.72 / Used from: £1.50 Short, but absolutely packed with wisdom for Ruby-using administrators
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 | The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan
Buy new: £16.28 / Used from: £15.79 Co-written by the designer of Ruby. Probably worth reading for insights, but not the best book for starting out
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 | The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby) by Hal Fulton
Buy new: £20.29 / Used from: £10.00 A disrecommendation: it was once a very useful resource, but is now so outdated that it can lead you astray
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