Tech Book Face Off: Confident Ruby Vs. Metaprogramming Ruby 2

I'm always on the lookout for books that will help me improve my programming skills by learning to write cleaner, clearer code. For this Tech Book Face Off I found two relatively short books on how to write better programs in Ruby. The first book is Confident Ruby: 32 Patterns for Joyful Coding by Avdi Grimm, and I paired it up with Metaprogramming Ruby 2: Program Like the Ruby Pros by Paolo Perrotta. I haven't been programming in Ruby too much lately, but I still love the language and think it's a great vehicle for exploring how to write beautiful code. Even if I don't use the things I learn from these books directly in my day-to-day work, plenty of the ideas behind good programming patterns will transfer to any language. The key is to recognize the rationale that makes a particular coding style work well—what are the underlying principles that make it better than the rudimentary way that code is normally written—and adapt that style to the language that you're using. So let's see what these books have to offer, whether you're a Rubyist or not.

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