Summary

How's your bag of tricks? By now you've seen enough Ruby code and concepts to give you the confidence to dive into new problems. Programming tasks can be difficult, but many of them are difficult in ways that other programmers have seen before, and Ruby is designed to help you minimize the distress, organize your thinking, and come up with the simplest solutions that actually work.

Ruby was almost unknown to the general public—outside of Japan, that is—as recently as a year ago, but more Web resources are gradually appearing, and several books on Ruby now exist or will soon be on the bookstore shelves, including

  • The Ruby Way, Hal Fulton (Sams, 2001), ISBN 0672320835.

  • Programming Ruby, Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt (Addison-Wesley, 2000), ISBN ...

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