This time it’s Ruby Phrasebook by James Clinton.
The price was right: AUD$19.95. I’ll keep this beside me when I’m Ruby-ing, it’s a useful memory-jogger to have.
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I confess: I’m still trying to discover Ruby’s “inner beauty.” As a colleague says: in comparison with PHP or PERL, Ruby is a step forward. Apologies to any Ruby fanboy reading this, but It’s got a lot of walking to do still, as far as I can see. This is Java, circa 1999…green threads, pissy networking, incomplete (and sometimes just plain wrong) class library, weird little GUI packages: the lot. Been there, done that!
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