 | Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) by Peter Cooper
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $23.64 Good book for beginners - get started here...
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 | The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Hal Fulton
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $23.00 Must have - next step after Beginning Ruby.
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 | The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $19.50 New - Another must have - covers Ruby 1.9.
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 | Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas
Buy new: $29.67 / Used from: $22.95 A classic, but I'd get The Ruby Way and The Ruby Programming Language first.
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 | Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) by Lucas Carlson
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $9.52 The Perl Cookbook is a great book from O'Reilly. I'm glad to say that O'Reilly has a winner to as well.
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 | Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition by Dave Thomas
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $16.99 Where everyone starts, but a little out of date.
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 | The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Obie Fernandez
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $25.00 A must have...not an intro book, but definitely will deepen your knowledge or Rails once you've got a few project under your belt. Includes Rails 2.0 coverage.
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 | Advanced Rails by Brad Ediger
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $17.00 Well written and very useful. Would put this in my top three favorite Rails books.
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 | Advanced Rails Recipes by Mike Clark
Buy new: $22.67 / Used from: $20.89 It's not out, so I haven't seen it, but I'm guessing this will be another must have.
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 | Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) by Chad Fowler
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $11.95 Must have - it's a bit out of date, but filled with great recipes.
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 | RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) by Michael Hartl
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $25.00 I like the Addison-Wesley Ruby/Rails books. Pre-Rails 2.0, but I found this to be one of the best books to start with.
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 | Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz
Buy new: $26.67 / Used from: $11.84 A great book for newbies, another good book to start with...however, like a lot of Rails books at there at the moment, it's pre-Rails 2.0.
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 | Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) by Rob Orsini
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $3.71 Another good recipe book.
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 | Pro Active Record: Databases with Ruby and Rails (Pro) by Kevin Marshall
Buy new: $24.43 / Used from: $3.75 Mixed reviews - I found it to be a good beginners book (not pro) and a nice reference.
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 | RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $11.98 Highly recommended. Not Ruby/Rails specific (but does use Ruby for many examples).
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 | Ajax on Rails by Scott Raymond
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $14.98 |
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