''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
Addison–Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles ...
in 2001. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2004. The third edition, covering Ruby 1.9, was published in 2010, with the fourth edition, covering Ruby 1.9 and 2.0 being published in 2013.
fifth edition updated for Ruby 3.3, was written by Noel Rappin, and published by Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2023.
References
External links
First edition(for online reading) at RUBY-DOC.ORG
4th edition at The Pragmatic Programmers
Programming Ruby (First Edition)
2004 non-fiction books
Ruby (programming language)
Books about free software
Computer programming books
Open Publication License-licensed works
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