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</style><table class="infobox ib-book vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">Programming Ruby </caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Dave_Thomas_(programmer)" title="Dave Thomas (programmer)">Dave Thomas</a>, Chad Fowler, <a href="Andy_Hunt_(author)" title="Andy Hunt (author)">Andrew Hunt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Pragmatic_Programmers" class="mw-redirect" title="Pragmatic Programmers">Pragmatic Programmers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">22 Oct 2004 (second edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="Paperback" title="Paperback">Paperback</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">864 pages (second edition)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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</style><bdi>0-9745140-5-5</bdi></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/254803547">254803547</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="Dewey_Decimal_Classification" title="Dewey Decimal Classification">Dewey Decimal</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data">005.133 22</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="LCC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCC (identifier)"><abbr title="Library of Congress Classification">LC Class</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data">QA76.64 .T494 2005</td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><i><b>Programming Ruby</b></i> is a book about the <a href="Ruby_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruby programming language">Ruby programming language</a> by <a href="Dave_Thomas_(programmer)" title="Dave Thomas (programmer)">Dave Thomas</a> and <a href="Andy_Hunt_(author)" title="Andy Hunt (author)">Andrew Hunt</a>, authors of <i><a href="The_Pragmatic_Programmer" title="The Pragmatic Programmer">The Pragmatic Programmer</a></i>. In the Ruby community, it is commonly known as "The PickAxe" because of the pickaxe on the cover. The book has helped Ruby to spread outside Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The complete first edition of this book is freely available under the <a href="Open_Publication_License" title="Open Publication License">Open Publication License</a> v1.0, and was published by <a href="Addison-Wesley" title="Addison-Wesley">Addison-Wesley</a> in 2001. The second edition, covering the features of Ruby 1.8, was published by The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2004. The third edition, covering Ruby 1.9, was published in 2010, with the fourth edition, covering Ruby 1.9 and 2.0 being published in 2013.

</p><p>A <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/">fifth edition</a>, updated for Ruby 3.3, was written by Noel Rappin, and published by Pragmatic Programmers, LLC in 2023.

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFBlack" class="citation web cs1">Black, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infoq.com/interviews/david-black">"David Black on the Success of Ruby"</a>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/">First edition</a> (for online reading) at RUBY-DOC.ORG</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby4/programming-ruby-1-9-2-0-4th-edition/">4th edition at The Pragmatic Programmers</a></li></ul>

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