eBook By Category (Ruby)

Ruby is perhaps best known as the engine powering the hugely popular Ruby on Rails web framework

However, it is an extremely powerful and versatile programming language in its own right

It focuses on simplicity and offers a fully object-oriented environment

Based on the best-selling first edition, Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition is the leading guide for every type of reader who wants to learn Ruby from the ground up

The new edition of this book provides the same excellent introduction to Ruby as the first edition plus updates for the newest version of Ruby, including the addition of the Sinatra and Ramaze web application frameworks and a chapter on GUI development so developers can take advantage of these new trends

Beginning Ruby starts by explaining the principles behind object-oriented programming and within a few chapters builds toward creating a full Ruby application

Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions

You'll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including:

800 Numbers

Crosswords

Cryptograms

Knight's Tour

Paper, Rock, Scissors

Tic-Tac-Toe

Texas Hold-Em

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and more

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world?

This practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer

And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be completely confident with the Ruby language before you begin working with Rails

Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby

`Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter

Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby

He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily work

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases

Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are bought, others are based on open source projects, and the origin of a few--usually the most critical ones--is completely unknown

A lot of applications are very old, some are fairly new, and seemingly no two of them were written using the same tools

Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can't finish each day's task without having to scan through version control system output, looking for the file you want?

With the introduction of Ferret, Ruby users now have one of the fastest and most flexible search libraries available

And it's surprisingly easy to use

This book will show you how to quickly get up and running with Ferret

As a development team, you want to be productive

You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications

You want to use Ruby and Rails

FXRuby is a highly object-oriented toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby

Since its initial release in 2001, FXRuby has become one of the most popular GUI choices for Ruby developers

This book is your best resource for rapidly learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your favorite programming language

Ruby is an interpreted language, capable of saving programmers considerable time during program development since no compilation and linking are necessary

It is ideal for writing text-processing applications, server-side scripts, application prototypes, mathematics, and for many everyday programming tasks


* Reviews Ruby's clever syntax and demonstrates why that makes it a perfect choice for beginning programmers, and also shows how its multipurpose capabilities make it a sound choice for experienced developers
* Explores Ruby's uses for prototyping, text processing, and other tasks

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Everyone in the Ruby world seems to be talking about metaprogramming--how you can use it to remove duplication in your code and write elegant, beautiful programs

Now you can get in on the action as well



This book describes metaprogramming as an essential component of Ruby

Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres

In particular, more and more people are discovering that Rubys flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment

Within the pages of Practical Ruby for System Administration, youll learn the Ruby way to construct files, tap into clouds of data, build domain-specific languages, perform network traffic analysis, and more

Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gemsready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects

This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects

Youll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book

Want to take Ruby to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and web programming? If you?

This is a book for the Ruby programmer who's never written a Mac app before

Through this hands-on tutorial, you'll learn all about the Cocoa framework for programming on Mac OS X

Join the author's journey as this experienced Ruby programmer delves into the Cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same problems that you'll face

Ruby is a fully object-oriented language, much like the classic object-oriented language, Smalltalk

Like Smalltalk, it is dynamically typed (as opposed to Java or C++), but unlike Smalltalk, Ruby features the same conveniences found in modern scripting languages, making Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forward-thinking programmers and the basis for the Rails web framework

This is `the` reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including all the new and changed methods introduced by Ruby 1

(Pearson Education) A guide to working with the object-oriented programming language, Ruby, which allows for programming without extra syntax or code

Shows how to easily mine the Ruby language, teaching the basics, plus how to write large programs, how to extend Ruby using C code, and more

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Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today

When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

Now in its Second Edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1

The First Hands-On, Practical, All-Ruby Refactoring Workbook!

Refactoring?the art of improving the design of existing code?

How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do

Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive

There may be no better way to learn how to program than by dissecting real, representative examples written in your language of choice

Ruby by Example analyzes a series of Ruby scripts, examining how the code works, explaining the concepts it illustrates, and showing how to modify it to suit your needs

Baird's examples demonstrate key features of the language (such as inheritance, encapsulation, higher-order functions, and recursion), while simultaneously solving difficult problems (such as validating XML, creating a bilingual program, and creating command-line interfaces)

Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The `Ruby Cookbook` is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language

It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects

An expert guide to Ruby, a popular new Object-Oriented Programming Language

Ruby is quickly becoming a favourite among developers who need a simple, straight forward, portable programming language

Ruby is ideal for quick and easy object-oriented programming such as processing text files or performing system management

Having been compared with other programming languages such as Perl, Python, PCL, Java, Eiffel, and C++; Ruby is popular because of its straight forward syntax and transparent semantics

`Ruby in Practice` increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects

The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment

You'll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format

Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method

This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core components, from operators to reserved words to data structures to method syntax, highlighting those key features that you'll likely use every day when coding Ruby

Whether you've come to Ruby because of the Rails web development framework --Ruby's killer app -- or simply because it's a relatively clean, powerful and expressive language that's useful for a lot of applications, the Ruby Pocket Reference is organized to help you find what you need quickly

This book is for those new to programming or that know other programming languages and would like to know Ruby

The book teaches the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and starts with creating a basic program

Everything is covered such as control structures and variables, taking input, and creating output

The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1

8 and 1

9 of the language

The Ruby Way assumes that the reader is already familiar with the subject matter

Using many code samples it focuses on `how-to use Ruby` for specific applications, either as a stand-alone language, or in conjunction with other languages

Topics covered include:

Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages

Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book

The Ruby Way takes a ?

The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner

It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading

Whether the topic is simple or tough, the book's easy-to-follow examples and explanations will give you immediate confidence as you build your Ruby programming skills