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SummaryThe Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written and totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyThis is a good time for Ruby! Its powerful like Java or C, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And its elegant, so creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straightforward.



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David A. Black

David A. Black is a well-known Ruby developer, trainer, consultant, event organizer, speaker, and author. David has been programming in Ruby since 2000, and was a founding director of Ruby Central, Inc. A Ruby standard library contributor, David has written or contributed to a number of popular books about Ruby and Ruby on Rails, including "The Well-Grounded Rubyist", "The Rails Way", and "Ruby in Practice".

David works for 2U, Inc., where he (gasp!) doesn't use Ruby! But he's having fun learning Python and honing his JavaScript.



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