13 Best Ruby Books of All Time

Our goal: Find the best Ruby books according to the internet (not just one random person's opinion).

Here's what we did:

Type "best ruby books" into our search engine and study the top 5+ pages.
Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
Rank the results neatly for you here! 😊
(It was a lot of work. But hey! That's why we're here, right?)

(Updated 2024)

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Last Updated: Monday 1 Jan, 2024

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1
The Ruby Programming Language
Everything You Need to Know
David Flanagan
Appears in 4 articles
2
Head First Ruby
A Brain-Friendly Guide
Jay McGavren
Appears in 4 articles
3
The Well-Grounded Rubyist
David A. Black
Appears in 4 articles
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4
Ruby on Rails Tutorial
Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
Michael Hartl
Appears in 3 articles
2recommenders
5
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
An Agile Primer
Sandi Metz
Appears in 3 articles
6
Ruby Pocket Reference
Instant Help for Ruby Programmers
Michael Fitzgerald
Appears in 3 articles
7
Ruby Cookbook
Recipes for Object-Oriented Scripting
Lucas Carlson
Appears in 3 articles
8
Beginning Ruby
From Novice to Professional
Peter Cooper
Appears in 3 articles
9
Ruby For Beginners
Your Guide To Easily Learn Ruby Programming in 7 days
iCode Academy
Appears in 2 articles
10
Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0
The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
Dave Thomas
Appears in 2 articles
11
Intro To Ruby Programming
Beginners Guide Series
John Elder
Appears in 2 articles
12
Learn Ruby in 24 Hours or Less
A Beginner’s Guide To Learning Ruby Programming Now
Robert Dwight
Appears in 2 articles
13
The Rails 5 Way
Obie Fernandez
Appears in 2 articles

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