The Best Books to Learn Ruby

Table of Contents

• The Ruby Programming Language
• Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros
• Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition): The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
• Learn to Program (2nd edition)
• Learn Ruby on Rails
• Rails Tutorial
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

Want to learn Ruby? Ruby (most often paired with Rails) is an object-oriented programming language with features like dynamic type and automatic memory management. Ruby is praised for minimizing confusion for new developers, so pick up (or download) one of these acclaimed Ruby books and get to work! 

The Ruby Programming Language

David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto, 2008

Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros

Paolo Perrotta, 2010

Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition): The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt, 2013

Learn to Program (2nd edition)

Chris Pine, 2009

Learn Ruby on Rails

Daniel Kehoe (pdf)

Rails Tutorial

Michael Hartl

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

Sandi Metz

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