The Best Ruby Books

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	1	The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan, and Yukihiro Matsumoto 34 reviewsReleased 2008-01-25 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
▲11	2	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by Peter Cooper 33 reviewsReleased 2009-07-21 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
▲11	3	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt 61 reviewsReleased 2004-10-01 Buy it new for $29.67 [not a Ruby book]
▲2	4	Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) by Lucas Carlson, and Leonard Richardson 30 reviewsReleased 2006-07-19 Buy it new for $31.49 [not a Ruby book]
▼2	5	The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming by Hal Fulton 23 reviewsReleased 2006-10-25 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▲1	6	Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson 26 reviewsReleased 2009-03-17 Buy it new for $29.01 [not a Ruby book]
	7	The Art of Rails by Edward Benson 7 reviewsReleased 2008-05-05 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▲8	8	Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby) by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt 8 reviewsReleased 2009-04-28 Buy it new for $32.97 [not a Ruby book]
▼7	9	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper 33 reviewsReleased 2007-03-26 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
new	10	Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Tony Stubblebine 28 reviewsReleased 2007-07-18 Buy it new for $10.19 [not a Ruby book]
▼9	11	RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails by Michael Hartl, and Aurelius Prochazka 27 reviewsReleased 2008-04-02 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼6	12	Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, and Stanley Selkow 8 reviewsReleased 2008-10-14 Buy it new for $31.49 [not a Ruby book]
▼2	13	Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt 58 reviewsReleased 2008-10-01 Buy it new for $23.07 [not a Ruby book]
▼9	14	Ruby Pocket Reference by Michael Fitzgerald 5 reviewsReleased 2009-02-09 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼11	15	Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts, and Steven Levithan 21 reviewsReleased 2009-05-22 Buy it new for $29.69 [not a Ruby book]
▲2	16	Professional Ruby on Rails by Noel Rappin 4 reviewsReleased 2008-02-25 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼9	17	Foundation Rails 2 by Eldon Alameda 11 reviewsReleased 2008-10-27 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼9	18	Metaprogramming Ruby: Program Like the Ruby Pros by Paolo Perrotta 11 reviewsReleased 2010-02-02 Buy it new for $21.75 [not a Ruby book]
new	19	Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl 137 reviewsReleased 2002-07-15 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
new	20	Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Federico Biancuzzi, and Chromatic 11 reviewsReleased 2009-03-27 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]