The Best Ruby Books

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new		Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) by Tony Stubblebine 27 reviewsReleased 2007-07-18 Buy it new for $10.19 [not a Ruby book]
	1	Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt 37 reviewsReleased 2008-10-28 Buy it new for $23.07 [not a Ruby book]
▲3	2	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional by Peter Cooper 29 reviewsReleased 2007-03-26 Buy it new for $29.31 [not a Ruby book]
	3	The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan, and Yukihiro Matsumoto 25 reviewsReleased 2008-01-25 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
▲4	4	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional) by Peter Cooper 29 reviewsReleased 2007-03-26 Buy it new for $32.57 [not a Ruby book]
▼3	5	Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby) by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt 62 reviewsReleased 2009-04-28 Buy it new for $32.97 [not a Ruby book]
new	6	Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition by Jeffrey Friedl 132 reviewsReleased 2002-07-15 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼3	7	Ruby Way, The: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming by Hal Fulton 21 reviewsReleased 2007-03-20 Buy it new for $26.72 [not a Ruby book]
▲5	8	Simply Rails 2 by Patrick Lenz 22 reviewsReleased 2008-05-01 Buy it new for $26.37 [not a Ruby book]
▲4	9	Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) by Chad Fowler 14 reviewsReleased 2006-06-09 Buy it new for $24.05 [not a Ruby book]
▼1	10	Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Hansson 10 reviewsReleased 2009-03-28 Buy it new for $29.01 [not a Ruby book]
new	11	Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts, and Steven Levithan 9 reviewsReleased 2009-06-04 Buy it new for $29.69 [not a Ruby book]
▲5	12	JRuby Cookbook by Justin Edelson, and Henry Liu 1 reviewsReleased 2008-11-06 Buy it new for $15.39 [not a Ruby book]
▼8	13	Beginning Ruby on Rails by Steve Holzner Ph.D. 13 reviewsReleased 2006-11-29 Buy it new for $19.24 [not a Ruby book]
▼4	14	Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 109 reviewsReleased 2006-12-14 Buy it new for $35.95 [not a Ruby book]
▼3	15	Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers by David Black 55 reviewsReleased 2006-05-11 Buy it new for $32.81 [not a Ruby book]
▼4	16	Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer by Topher Cyll 4 reviewsReleased 2007-12-10 Buy it new for $29.56 [not a Ruby book]
▼7	17	Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) by Rob Orsini 14 reviewsReleased 2007-01-16 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
▼13	19	RailsSpace by Aurelius Prochazka 26 reviewsReleased 2008-03-29 Buy it new for $26.72 [not a Ruby book]
▼7	20	Practical Ruby for System Administration by André Ben Hamou 4 reviewsReleased 2007-06-25 Buy it new for $29.56 [not a Ruby book]