Ruby Books

The creator of Ruby (Matz) helped write this book - "The Hummingbird". It's a great starter for developers wanting to learn Ruby.

The "Pickaxe" includes an intro to Ruby and a full reference to the language. Most developers have either this book or the "hummingbird".

Read this to see idiomatic Ruby in action. It takes a "how-to" approach, giving concrete examples to common problems.

After learning the basics of Ruby, read this to see idiomatic Ruby in action. You'll learn how to write code in the Ruby-style.

Learn common patterns in other languages brought to Ruby. Some design patterns are even supported by the core language.

A book for advanced Ruby developers, you'll learn metaprogramming techniques to keep your code concise and DRY.

Examples to common tasks in Ruby. Learn to work with reflection, XML processing, databases, web services, and more.

Design easy to use APIs, construct domain-specific languages, use functional programming, and learn how to write expressive Ruby.

This book provides a good foundation of core Ruby. Learn about callable objects, reflection, threading, I/O, and more.

This unique book is a collection of Ruby projects. The author shows you how to build each one from the ground up.

Learn how to use Ruby to automate repetitive tasks via scripting.

This book is the de-facto guide on learning the web framework Rails. It's co-authored by the creator of the Rails framework.

Ruby is an ideal language for system administration tasks due to its terseness and readability.

Gems is the package management system for Ruby. Learn about the currently available gems so you won't have to re-invent the wheel.

RSpec is the popular BDD library for Ruby. This book includes a gentle introduction and as well as more advanced features.

Beginner to Advanced Ruby