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8 Best Ruby on Rails Books

Goal: Find the best Ruby on Rails books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).

Method:

  1. Search for "best ruby on rails books" and study the top 5+ pages.
  2. Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
  3. Rank the results neatly here.

8 Best Ruby on Rails Books

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1

Agile Web Development with Rails 6

by Sam Ruby

2

Practical Object-Oriented Design

An Agile Primer Using Ruby

by Sandi Metz

3

Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

by Michael Hartl

4

Eloquent Ruby

by Russ Olsen

5

The Pragmatic Programmer

From Journeyman to Master

by Andrew Hunt

Also recommended by:

Ev Williams, Jeff Atwood

6

Rails

Novice to Ninja

by Glenn Goodrich

7

Rails AntiPatterns

Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring

by Chad Pytel

8

The Well-Grounded Rubyist

by David A. Black

Sources

Edited by

Richard Reis

Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.

Anurag Ramdasan

Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

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