Ruby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O’Reilly) that looks into the “Ruby way” of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically, why Rubyists tend to write Ruby the way they do. It’s an engaging book and we took a look at it and interviewed Gregory Brown about it just over a year ago.
Gregory always wanted to be able to give away his book with a Creative Commons license eventually and O’Reilly have kindly allowed him to start doing that, a chapter at a time. So far, the first five chapters are available to download at GitHub (in PDF format). Read More
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