great book about a great programming language

Ruby is together with python the new star at the programming
sky. no more ugly pointers, no memory management and Ruby
has a big and powerful high level standard library.
this book has lots of useful stuff in it. I liked especially
the chapters on DBI, SOAP and Performace. The Rexml part
could have been bigger in the XML chapter, but when the book
was written Rexml was not as powerful as it is today.
If you like Ruby (and you will if you want to have fun when programming) you should buy this book. the authers really know
what the are talking about.

Other Reviews

• Pretty Good Content. Poor Editing and Presentation.
• great book about a great programming language
• This book needs better editing
• An adventurous cookbook for advanced Ruby programmers.