In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Ruby-on-rails books and tutorials can help fill your brain this May and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial (2016)
- The Rails 5 Way (4th Edition) (2017)
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial (2015)
- Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (2006)
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist (2014)
- Ruby For Beginners (2017)
- Ruby on Rails 5.0 for Autodidacts (2016)
- Rails: Novice to Ninja (2016)
- The Well Grounded Rubyist (2018)
- Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1 (2017)
- Ruby on Rails For Dummies (2007)
- Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (2012)
Ruby on Rails Tutorial (2016)
Used by sites as varied as Twitter, GitHub, Disney, and Airbnb, Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for developing web applications, but it can be challenging to learn and use. Whether you’re new to web development or new only to Rails, Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial, Fourth Edition, is the solution. Best-selling author and leading Rails developer Michael Hartl teaches Rails by guiding you through the development of three example applications of increasing sophistication.
Author(s): Michael Hartl
The Rails 5 Way (4th Edition) (2017)
The “Bible” for Rails Development: Fully Updated for Rails 5. The Rails™ 5 Way is the comprehensive, authoritative reference guide for professionals delivering production-quality code using modern Ruby on Rails. Obie Fernandez illuminates the entire Rails 5 API, its most powerful idioms, design approaches, and libraries.
Author(s): Obie Fernandez
Ruby on Rails Tutorial (2015)
Used by sites as diverse as Twitter, GitHub, Disney, and the Yellow Pages, Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular frameworks for developing web applications, but it can be challenging to learn and use. Whether you’re new to web development or new only to Rails, Ruby on Rails™ Tutorial, Third Edition, is the solution.
Author(s): Michael Hartl
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running (2006)
Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featuredweb applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications thatonce took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter ofdays. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn’t.If you’re like a lot of web developers, you’ve probably considered kicking the tires on Rails – the framework of choice for the newgeneration of Web 2.0 developers. Ruby on Rails: Up and Running takes you out for a test drive and shows you just how fast Ruby on Rails can go.
Author(s): Bruce Tate, Curt Hibbs
The Well-Grounded Rubyist (2014)
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written and totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed. This is a good time for Ruby! It’s powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes
Author(s): David A. Black
Ruby For Beginners (2017)
This book aims to guide a complete novice in Ruby programming. This book is carefully crafted to aid the new or inexperienced programmer in learning to write a code in Ruby language. If you are someone who somehow developed a fear to explore the unknown and still interested in learning Ruby programming, then this book can truly help you. This book covers everything that a beginner in Ruby programming should learn.
Author(s): iCode Academy
Ruby on Rails 5.0 for Autodidacts (2016)
A step by step guide to learn Ruby on Rails 5.0. It includes a basic tutorial for Ruby 2.3 and is written for programmers who know at least one other programming language and are familiar with HTML. It covers Active Record, Scaffolding, REST, Routing, Bundler, Test Driven Development, Cookies, Sessions, Action Mailer, I18n, Asset Pipeline, JavaScript, Caching, Templates and of course the new 5.0 features Action Cable and Active Job.
Author(s): Stefan Wintermeyer
Rails: Novice to Ninja (2016)
Rails: Novice to Ninja is an easy-to-follow, practical and fun guide to Ruby on Rails for beginners. It covers all you need to get up and running, from installing Ruby, Rails and SQLite to building and deploying a fully-featured web application. The third edition of this book has been fully updated to cover Rails 5, the latest version of the framework.
Author(s): Glenn Goodrich, Patrick Lenz
The Well Grounded Rubyist (2018)
Ruby is a dynamic language perfect for creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts. The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a perfect tutorial for newcomers to Ruby and a great way for experienced Rubyists to deepen their understanding of the language.
Author(s): David A. Black, Leo, Joseph, III
Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1 (2017)
Learn Rails the way the Rails core team recommends it, along with the tens of thousands of developers who have used this broad, far-reaching tutorial and reference. If you’re new to Rails, you’ll get step-by-step guidance. If you’re an experienced developer, get the comprehensive, insider information you need for the latest version of Ruby on Rails.
Author(s): Sam Ruand David B. Copeland
Ruby on Rails For Dummies (2007)
Quickly create Web sites with this poweful tool. Use this free and easy programming language for e-commerce sites and blogs. If you need to build Web and database applications quickly but you don’t dream in computer code, take heart!
Author(s): Barry A. Burd
Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (2012)
The Complete Guide to Writing More Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Ruby Applications. Ruby’s widely admired ease of use has a downside: Too many Ruby and Rails applications have been created without concern for their long-term maintenance or evolution. The Web is awash in Ruby code that is now virtually impossible to change or extend.
Author(s): Sandi Metz
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Best Ruby on Rails Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Ruby on Rails books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Mastering Ruby on Rails: A Beginner's Guide
Author(s): Sufyan Bin Uzayr
ID: 3214819, Publisher: CRC Press, Year: 2022, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, 7th Edition
Author(s): Michael Hartl
ID: 3420322, Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, Year: 2022, Size: 96 Mb, Format: epub
Learn Rails 6: Accelerated Web Development with Ruby on Rails
Author(s): Adam Notodikromo
ID: 2876907, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2021, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.