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Title: Required Reading
Review: If you are one of the many new developers coming to Ruby through Rails, this book is certainly required reading.Within these pages you will find a solidly paced and effective tutorial of the Ruby programming language. The book speaks to programmers with only a little experience and yet experienced Rubyists will likely learn a few things by the end. I know I did.The book does a nice job of keeping the material Rails centric. Examples often show a Rails slant, though the concepts are primarily vanilla Ruby. This allows you to learn powerful new techniques that will likely help you in many new areas while staying focused on the current goal.This book also has the best description of Ruby's "singleton classes" yet put in print. It's probably of value to all Rubyists for that alone.I highly recommend this title.
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