''Programming Ruby'' is a book about the

Ruby programming language Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language which supports multiple programming paradigms. It was designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity. In Ruby, everything is an object, including p ...

by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of ''

The Pragmatic Programmer ''The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master'' is a book about computer programming and software engineering, written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas and published in October 1999. It is used as a textbook in related university courses. ...

''. 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 throu ...

in 2001. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2004. An updated 4th edition covering Ruby 1.9 and 2.0 is available.

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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 {{software-book-stub