The Best Ruby Books

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	1	Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson 23 reviewsReleased 2009-03-17 Buy it new for $29.01 [not a Ruby book]
	2	The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan, and Yukihiro Matsumoto 29 reviewsReleased 2008-01-25 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
	3	Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt 47 reviewsReleased 2008-10-01 Buy it new for $23.07 [not a Ruby book]
▲10	4	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 $26.23 [not a Ruby book]
▲15	5	Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series) by Chris Pine 27 reviewsReleased 2009-03-24 Buy it new for $16.47 [not a Ruby book]
▲5	6	Design Patterns in Ruby by Russ Olsen 18 reviewsReleased 2007-12-20 Buy it new for $37.25 [not a Ruby book]
▲9	7	Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java (Pragmatic Programmers) by Scott Davis 19 reviewsReleased 2008-03-11 Buy it new for $23.07 [not a Ruby book]
▼4	8	Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, and Stanley Selkow 7 reviewsReleased 2008-10-14 Buy it new for $31.49 [not a Ruby book]
▲6	9	Ruby Best Practices by Gregory T Brown 8 reviewsReleased 2009-06-16 Buy it new for $23.09 [not a Ruby book]
▲9	10	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	11	Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide (Facets of Ruby) by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andy Hunt 3 reviewsReleased 2009-04-28 Buy it new for $29.44 [not a Ruby book]
▼5	12	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]
▲4	13	The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black 10 reviewsReleased 2009-05-05 Buy it new for $29.69 [not a Ruby book]
new	14	Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers) by Venkat Subramaniam 15 reviewsReleased 2008-04-08 Buy it new for $23.07 [not a Ruby book]
▼9	15	Professional Enterprise .NET (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) by Jon Arking, and Scott Millett 10 reviewsReleased 2009-10-12 Buy it new for $31.49 [not a Ruby book]
▼6	16	Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts, and Steven Levithan 20 reviewsReleased 2009-05-22 Buy it new for $29.69 [not a Ruby book]
▼12	17	Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by Peter Cooper 31 reviewsReleased 2009-07-21 Buy it new for $26.39 [not a Ruby book]
new	18	Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl 135 reviewsReleased 2002-07-15 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
▼9	19	Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz 61 reviewsReleased 2006-12-14 Buy it now [not a Ruby book]
new	20	Metaprogramming Ruby (Facets of Ruby) by Paolo Perrotta 2 reviewsReleased 2010-02-02 Buy it new for $21.75 [not a Ruby book]