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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
By Kevlin Henney
February 2010 
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Get 97 short and extremely useful tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi… Read more.

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Learning Rails: Live Edition
February 2010 
Ebook: $27.99

The Live Edition of Learning Rails starts with an update of the book from Rails 2.1.1 to Rails 2.3.5. Code that changed over the past year or so has been… Read more.

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Metaprogramming Ruby
By Paolo Perrotta
February 2010 
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As a Ruby programmer, you already know how much fun it is. Now see how to unleash its power, digging under the surface and exploring the language's most advanced features:… Read more.

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Programming Cocoa with Ruby
By Brian Marick
July 2009 
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Programming Cocoa with Ruby brings together two enthusiastic development communities. Ruby programmers will tell you how productive they are with just the right amount of code. Cocoa developers know the… Read more.

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Ruby Best Practices
By Gregory Brown
June 2009 
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Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how… Read more.

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Regular Expressions Cookbook
By Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
May 2009 
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This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. With recipes for popular programming languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl,… Read more.

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Programming Ruby 1.9
By Dave Thomas
Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt
April 2009 
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Would you like to go from first idea to working code much, much faster? Do you currently spend more time satisfying the compiler instead of your clients or end users?… Read more.

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Learn to Program, Second Edition
By Chris Pine
March 2009 
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For this new edition of the best-selling Learn to Program, Chris Pine has taken a good thing and made it even better. First, he used the feedback from hundreds of… Read more.

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Head First Rails
By David Griffiths
December 2008 
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Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals… Read more.

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Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
By Steve Pugh
November 2008 
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Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts provides carefully selected Ruby scripts that are immediately useful. Learn how to streamline administrative tasks like renaming files, disabling processes, and changing permissions. After you get… Read more.

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Learning Rails
By Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill
November 2008 
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Most Rails books are written for programmers looking for information on data structures. Learning Rails targets web developers whose programming experience is tied directly to the Web. Rather than begin… Read more.

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Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
By Maik Schmidt
November 2008 
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Every web site project is really an enterprise integration project in disguise. Ruby on Rails makes it easier than ever to create complex and good-looking web sites, but there's plenty… Read more.

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Enterprise Rails
By Dan Chak
October 2008 
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Enterprise Rails introduces time-tested software engineering principles to help you build a high-performance, scalable website with global reach. You'll learn how to design a solid architecture that ties the many… Read more.

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Rails for .NET Developers
By Jeff Cohen, Brian Eng
October 2008 
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Rails for .NET Developers introduces the joy of Ruby on Rails development to Microsoft .NET developers. This book demonstrates the essential elements of both the Ruby language and the Rails… Read more.

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Deploying Rails Applications
By Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce A. Tate, Clinton Begin
May 2008 
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This book will help you sleep better at night, knowing that your application can handle anything that gets thrown at it. Come away with the knowledge of how to optimize… Read more.

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FXRuby
By Lyle Johnson
April 2008 
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FXRuby is one of the most popular libraries for developing graphical user interface applications in Ruby. This book is the quickest and easiest way to get started developing GUI applications… Read more.

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Ferret
By David Balmain
March 2008 
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With the introduction of Ferret, Ruby users now have one of the fastest and most flexible search libraries available. And it's surprisingly easy to use. This book will show you how… Read more.

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The Ruby Programming Language
By David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto
January 2008 
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Bestselling author David Flanagan teams up with Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and writer/cartoonist/programmer why the lucky stiff to bring you the authoritative guide to Ruby. Covering versions 1.9 and… Read more.

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Advanced Rails
By Brad Ediger
December 2007 
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This is the book for experienced Rails developers who want to go to the next level with this web development framework, with an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with… Read more.

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Ruby Pocket Reference
By Michael Fitzgerald
July 2007 
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Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of… Read more.

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Ruby by Example
By Kevin C. Baird
June 2007 
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Perfect for programmers at all levels, Ruby by Example explores Ruby's functional power through the use of numerous practical and illustrative examples. The book includes short scripts, ranging from the… Read more.

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Learning Ruby
By Michael Fitzgerald
May 2007 
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You don't have to know everything about a car to drive one, and you don't need to know everything about Ruby to start programming with it. Written for both experienced… Read more.

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RESTful Web Services
By Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby
May 2007 
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You've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what… Read more.

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Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
By Phlip Plumlee
April 2007 
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The World Wide Web has come a long way from static HTML pages. Today's developers enforce and enjoy standards, and we have built the web's primitive tools into advanced libraries,… Read more.

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Ajax on Java
By Steven Douglas Olson
February 2007 
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This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features: suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose… Read more.

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Everyday Scripting with Ruby
By Brian Marick
January 2007 
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Everyday Scripting with Ruby is divided into four parts. In the first, you'll learn the basics of the Ruby scripting language. In the second, you'll see how to create scripts… Read more.

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Rails Cookbook
By Rob Orsini
January 2007 
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This book is packed with the solutions you need to be a proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range… Read more.

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Ajax on Rails
By Scott Raymond
January 2007 
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Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches you… Read more.

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Prototype Quick Reference
By Scott Raymond
November 2006 
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This short cut provides a complete quick reference to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source library that is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajax applications, and to… Read more.

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Ruby Cookbook
By Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
July 2006 
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From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has something for every programmer. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look… Read more.

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From Java to Ruby
By Bruce A. Tate
June 2006 
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If you're trying to adopt Ruby in your organization and need some help, this is the book for you.Based on a decision tree (a concept familiar to managers and executives,)… Read more.

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RJS Templates for Rails
By Cody Fauser
June 2006 
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RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that… Read more.

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Rails Recipes
By Chad Fowler
June 2006 
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You've read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful Rails application. But ingredients don't just… Read more.

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Best of Ruby Quiz
By James Edward Gray, II
March 2006 
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Sharpen your Ruby programming skills with twenty-five challenging problems from Ruby Quiz. Whether you have faithfully followed the weekly online Ruby Quiz challenges or are just looking for some practical… Read more.

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Programming Ruby, Second Edition
By Dave Thomas
With Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt
October 2004 
Print: $44.95

The famous Pickaxe book (so named for the tool on the cover) is the definitive reference to the highly regarded Ruby programming language. Author Dave Thomas has expanded the second… Read more.

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Ruby in a Nutshell
By Yukihiro Matsumoto
Translated by David L. Reynolds, Jr.
November 2001 
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Written by Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), creator of the language, Ruby in a Nutshell is a practical reference guide covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class… Read more.

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