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The Well-Grounded Rubyist, 2nd Ed, video edition
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist, 2nd Ed, video edition

by David A. Black
June 2014
Intermediate
17h 34m
English
Manning Publications

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"Once again, the definitive book on Ruby from David Black. A must-have!"
William Wheeler, TekSystems

The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written tutorial begins with your first Ruby program and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. It concentrates on the language, preparing you to use Ruby in any way you choose. This edition includes coverage of Ruby features such as keyword arguments, lazy enumerators, and Module#prepend.

This is a good time for Ruby! It's powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And it's elegant, so creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straightforward. With an active development community and countless libraries and productivity tools, Ruby has come into its own.
Inside:

  • Clear explanations of Ruby concepts
  • Numerous simple examples
  • Updated for Ruby 2.1
  • Prepares you to use Ruby anywhere for any purpose

David A. Black is an internationally known Ruby developer, author, trainer, speaker, event organizer, and founder of Ruby Central, as well as a Lead Consultant at Cyrus Innovation.

All wheat, no chaff—takes you from Ruby programmer to full-fledged Rubyist.
Doug Sparling, Andrews McMeel Universal

Provides powerful insights and digs into Ruby’s quirks. Revelatory.
Ted Roche, Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

The best way to learn Ruby fundamentals.
Derek Sivers, sivers.org

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