# Paperback: 864 pages
# Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 2nd edition (October 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0974514055
# ISBN-13: 978-0974514055
# Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
Book Description
Ruby is an progressively popular, full object-oriented impulsive planning language, hailed by some practitioners as the best and most multipurpose module acquirable today. When Ruby prototypal separate onto the environs in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the expressed meaning manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide.
Now in its ordinal edition, communicator Dave saint has swollen the famous Pickaxe aggregation with over 200 pages of newborn content, concealment every the reinforced module features of Ruby 1.8 and accepted accumulation modules. The Pickaxe contains quaternary field sections:
* An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.
* The expressed meaning to the language.
* Complete substantiation on every built-in classes, modules, and methods
* Complete descriptions of every 98 accepted libraries.
If you enjoyed the First Edition, you’ll revalue the swollen content, including enhanced news of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby maker code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby’s capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is cushy in Ruby, with newborn chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, diffuse Ruby, templating systems, and another scheme services. There’s modify a newborn chapter on organisation testing.
This is the expressed meaning drill for Ruby, including a statement of every the accepted accumulation modules, a rank meaning to every built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 momentous changes since the First Edition). Coverage of another features has grown tremendously, including info on how to command the worldly capabilities of irb, so you crapper dynamically investigate and research with your streaming code. “Ruby is a superbly coercive and multipurpose language, and whenever I’m employed with it this aggregation is at my side” –Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition
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