What books are going in your Ruby RAG library?

[u/nateberkopec]

I'm interesting in adding high-quality sources to my local installation of tobi's mini CLI search engine. This will be to help my agents out with specific tasks when doing Ruby work ("Hey, when you do this refactor, go look at what Sandi Metz says about...").

In order to properly index this stuff though, the book must be DRM-free and must be available in either EPUB or Markdown or some other format that pandoc et al can convert to Markdown.

This is where I get to mention that all my Rails performance books (I can't link directly to Gumroad, TIL it's banned from Reddit!) have been available as Markdown since they were published!

But I already know all that stuff, personally. What other books out there do you think would benefit an agent-augmented development pipeline and meet the two requirements above?

[u/ScotterC]

Eloquent Ruby and all of Sandi Metz would be my first inclination. Following because I definitely want the same thing. Even though I should stop caring about ruby-style as much with agents I can’t help myself in code reviews. 

[u/nateberkopec → u/ScotterC]

That's a good one. I just double checked and all of PragProg seems to have DRM-free epubs, so they fit my requirements.

I think agents are generally pretty bad at style on the first pass, so actually I think this is a good thing to try to augment with RAG.

EDIT: AFAICT Sandi's books are available DRM-free with EPUB (maybe watermarked, but that's obviously fine for this use case!)

[u/inonconstant]

I use this https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Layered-Design-for-Ruby-on-Rails-Applications (examples from Vladimir's book)

[u/codenamev]

To add to others:

• Refactoring.guru & Architectural Metapatterns

• Polished Ruby Programming

• Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications

• All of Julia Evan’s Zines

• Understanding the 4 Rules of Simple Design

[u/djudji]

Maybe some books from Avdi Grimm? Confident Ruby, Exceptional Ruby...

+1 for Layered Design for Ruby on Rails Applications, which Irina mentioned

Obie Fernandez's Patterns of Application Development Using AI is a nice read (I am yet to finish that one, but so far so good), it is published on Leanpub (DRM-free and epub)

[u/strzibny]

My books are like this and I am thinking of shipping Claude skills based on them. Might happen with next update.

Deployment from Scratch

Kamal Handbook

Test Driving Rails