# Ruby Language in Depth

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-language-in-depth/26417>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [4 April 2006 14:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-language-in-depth/26417 "2006-04-04T14:15:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Trier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Michael\_Trier](https://rubytalk.org/u/Michael_Trier)\
**Post date:** [4 April 2006 14:15 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-language-in-depth/26417/1 "2006-04-04T14:15:53Z")

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I'm looking for something akin to Stroustrup's C++ Programming  
Language or The Design and Evolution of C++ for Ruby. I love  
Programming Ruby and it's a great resource, but not quiet deep enough  
on all of the internals. There's Matz's book Ruby in a Nutshell. I  
don't have that one, but I also heard that it's also somewhat an  
overview. I'm making my way through Ruby Hacking Guide, and  
appreciate all the work everyone is doing on that, but it's not done  
and the machine translation is just too tough to get my head around.

Does anyone have any suggestions for the best resource at the moment?

Thanks,

Michael

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**Author:** ![Guest15](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@Guest15](https://rubytalk.org/u/Guest15)\
**Post date:** [4 April 2006 14:23 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-language-in-depth/26417/2 "2006-04-04T14:23:19Z")

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> I'm looking for something akin to Stroustrup's C++ Programming  
> Language or The Design and Evolution of C++ for Ruby. I love  
> Programming Ruby and it's a great resource, but not quiet deep enough  
> on all of the internals. There's Matz's book Ruby in a Nutshell. I  
> don't have that one, but I also heard that it's also somewhat an  
> overview. I'm making my way through Ruby Hacking Guide, and  
> appreciate all the work everyone is doing on that, but it's not done  
> and the machine translation is just too tough to get my head around.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for the best resource at the moment?

While it still might not be deep enough for you, I'm really enjoying  
Ruby for Rails -- [Ruby for Rails](http://www.manning.com/books/black)

I've not started chapter 17 yet, but it promises to be a guide to reading  
Rails internals. I'd think that would help with reading Ruby internals  
(to a degree).

Another great way to learn more is to look at ParseTree --  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/parsetree/)

Sean Carley's post about checkr and ParseTree is a good indicator  
of what you can learn --  
[http://sean-carley.blogspot.com/2006/04/debugging-parsetree-or-walking-in.html](http://sean-carley.blogspot.com/2006/04/debugging-parsetree-or-walking-in.html)

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> On 4/4/06, Michael Trier \<mtrier@gmail.com\> wrote:
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> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael
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> --  
> thanks,  
> -pate  
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Trier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Michael\_Trier](https://rubytalk.org/u/Michael_Trier)\
**Post date:** [4 April 2006 14:55 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-language-in-depth/26417/3 "2006-04-04T14:55:01Z")

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Excellent, thanks. I'll check both of those out. Actually I started  
looking at ParseTree after looking at your article. Thanks again.

Michael