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Summary The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentrating on the language and its uses so you can use Ruby in any way you choose. Updated for Ruby 2.5. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyDesigned for developer productivity, Ruby is an easy-to-learn dynamic language perfect for creating virtually any kind of software. Its famously friendly development community, countless libraries, and amazing tools, like the Rails framework, have established it as the language of choice for high-profile companies, including GitHub, SlideShare, and Shopify.



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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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