Ruby and Rails books, two years later (photo)

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Antonio Cangiano June 27th, 2008

Two years ago:

Today:

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Books , Ruby , Ruby on Rails
Comments(25)

25 Responses to “Ruby and Rails books, two years later (photo)”

# austin_web_developer on 27 Jun 2008 at 7:56 pm

Currently reading “The Rails Way” … awesome book.
# Gary Blomquist on 27 Jun 2008 at 8:31 pm

Where’s Ruby for Rails, Beginning Ruby, The Ruby Programming Language, Ruby for Java Programmers, Ruby By Example, Practical Ruby Gems, Enterprise Integration with Ruby, Everyday Scripting with Ruby, Ruby on Rails Up and Running, Best of Ruby Quiz … : )
# Gary Blomquist on 27 Jun 2008 at 8:36 pm

… Practical Rails Projects, Practical Ruby Projects, Pro Active Record, Advanced Rails, Professional Ruby on Rails, Simply Rails, …
# Rob Olson on 27 Jun 2008 at 9:10 pm

Oh NO! That used to be the reason I went to Rails from Java. Based on the book stack they’re pretty much equally as complicated (I know that’s not true but still).

depressing…
# Alex on 28 Jun 2008 at 12:14 am

The Ruby Programming Language by Matz et al is missing. Gotta have that one.
# Andrew on 28 Jun 2008 at 1:07 am

What you need to do Java is still much larger than what you need to do ruby!
# roarke on 28 Jun 2008 at 1:35 am

Hmmm, I don’t see “The Ruby Programming Language”.
# Antonio Cangiano on 28 Jun 2008 at 2:21 am

Guys, I’m not a bookstore. Those are just a few titles which I own. Of course, there are many more out there.
# Oscar Del Ben on 28 Jun 2008 at 2:27 am

The ruby programming language should be your next one
# Tomas on 28 Jun 2008 at 6:42 am

It’s not the amount of books available that matters — it’s the amount of books necessary to get an understanding of the full framework and environments.

That still makes it two books for Ruby and Rails.
# Antonio Cangiano on 28 Jun 2008 at 7:50 am

Tomas, of course I agree. The post is tongue in cheek.
# Manish on 28 Jun 2008 at 2:27 pm

That post made by browser choppy….
Nice pic…
# Clarence Odbody on 28 Jun 2008 at 9:18 pm

I seem to have taken this post differently than everyone else. I took it to indicate how much Rails and Ruby have grown in popularity. If it’s popular the books always follow.

When “Rails Unleashed” comes out then it’s time to move on.
# madx on 29 Jun 2008 at 10:24 am

By the way, there’s only one awesome Ruby book and it’s why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby
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# Eric on 29 Jun 2008 at 10:44 pm

I wrote a joke about this 6 months ago:

How many Ruby developers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Three.

One to screw it in, and two to write books about it.
# Matthew Carriere on 30 Jun 2008 at 6:00 pm

“The Rails Way” is a great book.
# Roderick van Domburg on 04 Jul 2008 at 4:34 am

I’m not so sure either if this sign is good or bad.
# Dario Salvelli on 04 Jul 2008 at 7:11 am

Ehehe RoR rocks! Ehi Antonio what do u know about ARAX?
# adit on 05 Jul 2008 at 7:02 am

next book : Agile Web Development with Merb

i wonder when ezra and teams will finish that thing
# Scott on 08 Jul 2008 at 9:23 am

Haha, what made you decide that you liked ruby so much over Java? I used Ruby on Rails for a while, but then went back to PHP.

Kind regards,
Scott
# Chris on 12 Jul 2008 at 8:32 am

Just like to say love the blog *linking to it now* and I would have to say the java to ruby migration was a GREAT IDEA xP

(assuming it was a true migration, not just a liquidation sale)

Will definitly be reading furthur into your blog.

Keep it up
# Chris on 12 Jul 2008 at 8:33 am

it shows I posted of windows!
*hides face in shame*
# Philip Nelson on 22 Jul 2008 at 6:58 pm

Scary … your bookshelf is morphing into my bookshelf !!!

What I actually find more interesting is that my bookshelf is becoming less of an “O’Reilly only”, although I still can’t live without my Perl books, and now seems to much more favour Pragmatic and Manning.

But top of the heap is now “The Rails Way” : bought it a month or so ago and it is now the one Rails book I could not do without.

Just a pity it is also the only one which is only available electronically in a crippled format which I can’t access on my Linux laptop.

I bought all the Pragmatic books in the “Print and PDF” double offer, so they can go everywhere my laptop goes.