Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The Pickaxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.
The complete first edition of this book is freely available at RubyCentral, under the Open Publication License v1.0, and was published by Addison-Wesley. The second edition was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
External links
First edition of book at RubyCentral
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