Ruby Developers Guide

I'm not sure how this book has achieved so many stars from previous reviewers. While the content is decent and wide-ranging (if you can get past the editing), the presentation overshadows it in a negative way.

You should buy this book for the information in it. It's a nice tour through the RAA, going through DBI, the various XML processors, XMLRPC/SOAP, Tk/GTK, and other packages that make you want to use Ruby for *everything* ;).

Astounding how one sided the flow of information is in thecomputing world. Despite Japan's impeccable high techcredentials most anglophone programmers are unfamiliar with theJapanese approaches to software development.