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The Best Books to Learn Ruby

By Liz Eggleston
Last updated on August 6, 2019

Want to learn Ruby? Ruby (most often paired with Rails) is an object-oriented programming language with features like dynamic type and automatic memory management. Ruby is praised for minimizing confusion for new developers, so pick up (or download) one of these acclaimed Ruby books and get to work! 

The Ruby Programming Language

David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto, 2008

Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros

Paolo Perrotta, 2010

Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition): The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt, 2013

Learn to Program (2nd edition)

Chris Pine, 2009

Learn Ruby on Rails

Daniel Kehoe (pdf)

Rails Tutorial

Michael Hartl

 

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer

Sandi Metz

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About The Author

Liz is the cofounder of Course Report, the most complete resource for students researching coding bootcamps. Her research has been cited in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and more. She loves breakfast tacos and spending time getting to know bootcamp alumni and founders all over the world. Check out Liz & Course Report on Twitter, Quora, and YouTube!

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