Ruby Software Engineer Books

Fundamentals

Pick one of these

• The Ruby on Rails Tutorial - Michael Hartl - 2022
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist - David A.Black, Joseph Leo - 2019
• Learn Ruby the Hard way - Zed A.Shaw - 2014
• Programming Ruby - Dave Thomas - 2013
• Eloquent Ruby - Russ Olsen - 2011

Exercise

• Exercism
• Codwars
• The Odin Project

Advanced

Learn Rails

• Agile Web Development with Rails 7 - Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas - 2022
• Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails - David Bryant Copeland - 2020
• Modern Front-End Development for Rails - Noel Rappin - 2022

Learn Best Practices

• Confident Ruby - Avdi Grimm - 2013
• Exceptional Ruby - Avdi Grimm - 2011
• Design Patterns in Ruby - Russ Olsen - 2007
• 99 Bottles of OOP - Sandi Metz - 2021
• Refactoring Ruby Edition - Jay Fields - 2009
• Ruby Best Practices - Gregory T.Brown - 2009
• Effective Ruby - 48 specific ways to write better Ruby - Peter J. Jones - 2014
• Practical Object-Oriented Design - Sandi Metz - 2018
• Polished Ruby Programming - Jeremy Evans - 2021

Testing

• The Complete guide to Rails Testing - Jason Swett - 2022
• Rails 5 Test Prescriptions - Noel Rappin - 2018
• Effective Testing with RSpec 3 - Myron Marston and Ian Dees - 2017

Deployment

• Deployment from scratch - 2022
• Docker for Rails Development - Rob Isenberg - 2019

Security

• rubyfu.net - 2022

Optional - go deeper

• Text Processing with Ruby - Rob Miller - 2015
• Ruby Performance Optimization - Alexander Dymo - 2015
• Metaprogramming Ruby 2 - Paolo Perrotta - 2014
• Ruby Under a Microscope - Pat Shaughnessy - 2013
• Understanding Computation - Tom Stuart - 2013
• Kestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity - 2013

References

• Ruby reading materials in 2022
• libgen.is - Ebooks source