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Title: highly recommended
Review: I found this book to be both thorough and insightful. The examples were clear and useful. I found that it answered a lot of questions I had about Ruby and cleared up several areas where I was hazy (such as Ruby's symbols).It is geared toward helping programmers understand the Ruby behind Ruby on Rails, but also explains Ruby in general well.If you want a reference book, the pickaxe would probably serve you better, but as an instructional book it excellent.
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