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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
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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 1.8 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
About the Authors
Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt have more than 50 years
combined experience, developing software for clients around the world. For the
last 10 years they've been working together as The Pragmatic Programmers, helping
clients write software and improve their development processes. They are authors
of the best-selling The Pragmatic Programmer, and have written several other
books. They speak at conferences globally, and are editors of IEEE Software's
"Construction" column.
Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains
an active, driving force in the Ruby community.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 1 Average Customer Rating: Nov 26, 2005
Probably the best one-stop Ruby guide
Clear and concise, this book covers Ruby very accessibly. A few hours after starting with the first edition I had my first application up and running, and the second edition is even more readable. I highly recommend it!
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