[sandal]

For the tl;dr crowd, this will take you straight to the PDF:

http://sandal.github.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf

(But please read the article, it provides context :)

[ddemchuk]

you provided a tl;dr link to a BOOK???! haha, wednesday morning irony ftw

[sandal]

Hah, the irony here did not escape me. But good point.

So... here's the tl;dr; for the book itself:

"Ruby provides many ways to do things, many of them decent. But some are usually better than others, depending on the context."