Free eBook: Ruby Best Practices
Posted on March 27th, 2010 in Computers & Internet
Get “Ruby Best Practices: Increase Your Productivity – Write Better Code”, published by O’Reilly Media for free in pdf format.
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 to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that’s readable and expressive, and much more. It’s the perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language.
Wow, what an amazing book. I’ve only taken a quick glance at it, but I really like the first chapter on test driven development, and also the last appendix on the worst practices.
I have no idea why this book was released for free. Gregory, if you are ever in Ireland, I’ll buy you a pint.