posted: 1:10pm 01.08.2007 (gmt+12)

Over the last few weeks in what little spare time I have, I've been trying to learn ruby and rails. As any good ruby developer will tell you, why's (poignant) guide to ruby is a fantastic resource to get you started.

why the lucky stiff is well-known to the ruby community as a whole, and his work on this book has helped thousands of people get a better grasp of ruby, through his less-than-traditional style of writing. Even if you're not interested in the subject matter, the book is well worth a read for the quirky style and wonderful comics sprinkled throughout. It's easily the most interesting technical(?) manual I've had the pleasure of reading.

In any case, the book is only (officially) available as an online, read-it-in-your-browser format. There are places selling both pdf and hardcopy versions of the book, but selling is the operative word, and they cost somewhere in the region of $US10 and $US20 each respectively.

The book is released under a Creative Commons license, so there's no reason you can't have a pdf version for free if some chump happens to make one (ie: me).

On that note, if you'd like to download this wonderful book, head over to the the resource page and grab it.

To say it's a bit of a hackjob would be kind, however the content (including the comics) are totally intact. If there's enough demand, I'll tidy it up.

 

-adrian