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.
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| Author | Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andrew Hunt |
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| Publisher | Pragmatic Programmers |
Publication date | 22 Oct 2004 |
| Publication place | United States of America |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 864 pages (second edition) |
| ISBN | 0-97-451405-5 |
| OCLC | 254803547 |
| 005.133 22 | |
| LC Class | QA76.64 .T494 2005 |
The complete first edition of this book is freely available at Ruby Central, under the Open Publication License v1.0, and was published by Addison-Wesley. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
An updated version covering Ruby 1.9 is now available from The Pragmatic Programmers.
External links
- First edition (for online reading) at RUBY-DOC.ORG
- Second edition at The Pragmatic Programmers
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