Is the Metasploit book still up-to-date?

[hdm at metasploit.com (HD Moore)]

On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:49:13 -0500, Ben Greenfield <bcg at struxural.com>  
wrote:

> I'm looking for a really thorough guide to the framework.
[..]
> I'm looking for a book / guide / documentation / recommendation /
> whatever to help me get out of the novice stage and into the
> intermediate stage so I can start using the frameworks potential more.

The best bet is:
http://metasploit.com/framework/support/

> I know that Amazon lists a book (Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration
> Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerability Research (Paperback),
> but it's from 2007.  Has anyone read the book?  Would you recommend
> it, or do you recommend the official documentation instead?

Unfortunately even when these books were published, they were already out  
of date. Until the new Offensive Security coursebook comes out[1], the  
best bet is the official documentation and wikibooks articles.

> I'm also curious if people knew Ruby before picking up Metasploit.  Do
> you think I'm better server with a book on Ruby and the Metasploit
> documentation?  I know some Ruby, but I'm not so comfortable that it's
> the language I go to if I need to do something quickly.

A great book is the Ruby PickAxe (v1)[2]

-HD


1.  
http://www.offensive-security.com/blog/offsec/metasploit-unleashed-mastering-the-framework/
2. http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/pickaxe/