review of ruby cookbook

Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O’Reilly))
Lucas Carlson et al.

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A book I should have gotten earlier. by rwx

One of the books that I should probably have gotten early on when I set out to learn Ruby/Rails for this site, but didn’t, is the Ruby Cookbook.

It has a lot of useful stuff in it, stylistically as well as performance-wise. It’s possible to find all the information in this book using google, but that’s probably a massive waste of time unless you’re being paid by the hour. I wasn’t, and I also had the goal of learning rails the hardest way possible, because I know that I learn better. So, after buying this book, I went back and took out some of the more inelegant madness that I’d put into the system.

In general, I really like the O’Reilly cookbooks, and this is a good contribution to the series.