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Title: Hands down the best technical book I've ever read
Review: This book was hands down the best technical book I've ever read. Through some kind of magic voodo, the Dave Thomas has written a book that is accessable and enjoyable to read for both novices and experts alike.For its tiny footprint, it covers everything you could need to know about Ruby, and the Rails framework. Its style is light and has just enough humor to make it fun without overdoing or making it hard to follow it like some other books (*cough*Programming Perl*cough*.) I really liked that their running example was a "real world" shopping cart rather then something very abstract like a "Gilligans Island" or some other silly nonsense.Even if you have no interest in Ruby or Rails, and even if you think the whole platform is a bunch of overhyped rubbish (it is not by the way), you should still buy this book just to know what a good technical book should be.
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