Programming Ruby

Programming Ruby

Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The Pickaxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan. The complete first edition of this book is freely available under the Open Publication License v1.0, and was published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2004. An updated version covering Ruby 1.9 is now available from...
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Author:Dave Thomas, Andy Hunt
Year published:2004

Author of Programming Ruby

Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas is a computer programmer and author/editor. He has written about Ruby. Dave and partner Andy Hunt wrote The Pragmatic Programmer and run The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Dave Thomas lives in Flower Mound, Texas. He moved to the United States from England in 1994. Dave has...
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Additional works by Dave Thomas
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Agile Web Development with Rails 2005
The Pragmatic Programmer 2000
It's Burnley Not Barcelona
ZZ Top
Depeche Mode
Kaleidoscope Belfast
Cosmic Bath
Cosmic Swansea
2001
Higher Than the Top
ECOOP 2006 - Object-Oriented Programming
Cosmic Sheffield
Cosmic Greater Manchester
Sctv
Johny Rotten
Ramshackles
Cosmic Gloucestershire
Future Voices from Berkshire
U2
Cosmic Hull
Frank and Funny Ideas for Better Relationships
Poetic Voyages Rochdale
Spellbound Birmingham
Cosmic Surrey
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
Well Done!
Cosmic Hereford and Worcester
Bien Hecho!
Cosmic South East Essex
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Andy Hunt
Andy Hunt

Andy Hunt is a writer of books on software development. Hunt co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer, six other books and many articles, and was one of the 17 original authors of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance. He and partner Dave Thomas founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf series...
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Additional works by Andy Hunt
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The Pragmatic Programmer 2000
Practices of an Agile Developer
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
Your research project
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
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