Reddit mentions of The Well-Grounded Rubyist

I strongly recommended The Well Grounded Rubyist

This gives you a great foundation, it's extremely well written and a nice reference to go back to.

I also recommend Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby

This book is just amazing. If you're new to object oriented programming, and even if you have a bit of experience, this is going to improve your skills dramatically.

Good luck!

The Rails 4 Way is excellent. It really covers everything, filling in gaps that you may have in your knowledge.


I would suggest reading this once you have a bit of rails knowledge. I've read the book over twice, and it was responsible for a surge in my rails knowledge/abilities.


I would actually suggest you make sure your understanding of Ruby is absolutely solid before you read the Rails 4 Way. It's not necessary, but I think the best way to learn Rails is to first have a full understanding of Ruby. That way, you truly understand what's going on under the hood when you're learning about various Rails features.


For Ruby, I recommend The Well-Grounded Rubyist. This is a great book, and it doesn't require you to code along with it (thought it does allow you to if you want, and it comes with sample code you can download).

I'm just finishing up a book now called The Well-Grounded Rubyist. This is one of the best introductory language books I've read. I'd recommend it most for someone who has some familiarity with other OO languages. Moves fast.

Nice work! Coming from python, when I started learning Ruby I was kind of miffed at the absence of something like this. However I found David Black's The Well-Grounded Rubyist to be a decent substitute.

For me, these two books are essential:

• 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
  
• Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
  
  The two of them are based in Ruby.
  
  Also, I'd watch anything by Sandi Metz, starting with All the Little Things.
  
  That for OOP, but for grasping Ruby the best book I've followed so far is The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black.

Learning Rails is harder without coding. I recommend Ruby books instead: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby and The Well-Grounded Rubyist.

Taking a hard look at 'The Well Grounded Rubyist':

https://www.amazon.com/Well-Grounded-Rubyist-David-Black/dp/1617291692/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1