Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition ISBN  0974514055 Release Date  01 October 2004 Category  Ruby Tags  ruby,   pragmatic,   "programming ruby",   ruby rails,   the ruby way,   "ruby",   0974514055,   "the pragmatic programmer",   ruby cook book,   ruby flash,   apache ruby,   agile ruby,   dummies ruby,   pragmatic unit testing,   hunt,   andrew hunt,   "pragmatic programmer",   pragmatic programmer,   This book @Amazon  View Tools Google Search Web flazx.com

Description 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 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: * An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. * The definitive reference to the language. * Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods * Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries. If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the new and expanded content, including: enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the world-wide web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks Other books on Ruby FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby Ferret The Ruby Programming Language Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer Ruby Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert's Voice in Open Source) Ruby by Example: Concepts and Code Practical Ruby Gems Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) From Java to Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know (Pragmatic Programmers)