The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc., 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472
This book isn’t really written with the Ruby beginner in mind, and certainly won’t be very useful to someone brand new to programming. Instead, I assume a decent technical grasp of the Ruby language and at least some practical experience in developi
Ruby: An Introduction Created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1993 (named after his birthstone) Inspired (in part) by Eiffel and Ada Pure OO language (even the number 1 is an instance of a class) Highly portable, works on Linux, UNIX, DOS, Windows 95/98/NT