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Publisher Pragmatic Programmers ISBN 0-9745140-5-5 Originally published 22 October 2004 Country United States of America OCLC 254803547 | Media type Print (Paperback) Dewey Decimal 005.133 22 Editor Pragmatic Programmers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication date 22 Oct 2004 (second edition) Pages 864 pages (second edition) Similar Andy Hunt books, Ruby books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Programming Ruby is a book about the Ruby programming language by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The PickAxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.
The complete first edition of this book is freely available under the Open Publication License v1.0, and was published by Addison-Wesley in 2001. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2004.
An updated version (4th edition) covering Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 is available.
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