Noel Rappin

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Staff Engineer at Chime, and the co-author of Programming Ruby and the author of Modern Front End Development for Rails.

Also on Bluesky as @noelrappin.com and Threads as noelrap

Websitehttps://noelrappin.com
Pronounshe/him
Most Recent Book Linkhttps://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5
Githubhttps://github.com/noelrappin

I like this new @thestorygraph feature

Here's my June...

We had a great meetup in the Chime Chicago offices last night for @MadisonRuby and @rubyconf!

Thanks to @jremsikjr for organizing, @i_ribon9 for presenting, and the entire Chime facilities staff for making it happen!

I never feel great about doing this, but the #pickaxe book still doesn't have any reviews on Amazon...

If you've enjoyed the book and feel so motivated, I’d greatly appreciate a rating or review, it really helps.

https://amzn.to/49JBA5A

Amazon.com

As you head off into the weekend, if you are looking for some #ruby reading...

The #pickaxe book is available for ebook at https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/

and print at https://amzn.to/43bIJsW.

Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition)

Programming Ruby is the most complete book on Ruby, covering both the language itself and the standard library as well as commonly used third-party tools.

As usual, the first person in the house to read any new book is Lego Batman.

In other news, my copies of the Pickaxe book have arrived.

Your copies should be shipping, or you can order from https://amzn.to/3u7vnkq

Thing 4: Getting to use this favorite character name in an example:
Thing 3: This aside…
Thing 2: This appendix
Thing 1: when I first got the build system to have the book's text say "Ruby 3.1.2" instead of Ruby 2.0.0…

New newsletter/blog post:

"The Pickaxe is out and I am happy” (https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/01/the-pickaxe-is-out/)

Listing seven small things about the book that made me happy as I was working on it.

Buy the book at
https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/
or
https://amzn.to/495DSvh

The Pickaxe is out and I am Happy – Noel Rappin Writes Here

I just write here