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Ruby Developers Guide Review by Daniel M. Debertin
This book needs better editing
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* ;).
But don't buy it for the writing. It's excessively verbose (do I really need a walk-through of the install process for every package? come on...), is typeset in an overlarge font, has too many screenshots, and has far too many spelling and usage errors.
In short, this book is a bit of a doorstop, but it does contain useful information, and I find myself referring to it often.