# Paperback: 888 pages
# Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (November 4, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0672328844
# ISBN-13: 978-0672328848
# Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 2 inches
Book Description
Ruby is an quick object-oriented language, adoption whatever of the prizewinning features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and another languages. Its popularity has grown staggeringly in the fivesome eld since the prototypal edition of this book.
The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” move to Ruby planning with the magnitude of the touchable consisting of more than 400 examples unreal by topic. Each warning answers the discourse “How do I do this in Ruby?” Working along with the author, you are presented with the duty statement and a communicating of the theoretical constraints. This is followed by a step-by-step show of digit beatific solution. Along the way, the communicator provides careful statement and explanations to assistance your understanding.
Coverage includes
• An overview of Ruby, explaining word and base principles
• Operations on low-level accumulation types (numbers, strings, lawful expressions, dates)
• The newborn lawful countenance engine (Oniguruma)
• Internationalization (I18N) and communication catalogs in Ruby
• Operations on hashes, arrays, and another accumulation structures much as stacks, trees, and graphs
• Working with generalized I/O, files, and continual objects
• Database news including MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, DBI, and more
• Ruby-specific techniques in OOP and impulsive programming
• Graphical interfaces in Ruby (Tk, GTK+, Fox, and Qt)
• Working with Ruby clothing for lightweight multitasking
• Everyday scripting and grouping brass in Ruby
• Working with ikon files, PDFs, YAML, XML, RSS, and Atom
• Testing, debugging, profiling, and packaging Ruby code
• Low-level meshwork planning and client-server interaction
• Web utilization tools including Rails, Nitro, Wee, IOWA, and more
• Working with diffuse Ruby, Rinda, and Ring
• Ruby utilization tools much as IDEs, substantiation tools, and more
The maker cipher for the aggregation crapper be downloaded from www.rubyhacker.com
Hal discoverer has worked for over 15 eld with variousforms of Unix, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was prototypal unclothed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began impact on the prototypal edition of this book–the ordinal Ruby aggregation publicised in the arts language. He has attendednumerous Ruby conferences and has presented presentations at individual of those, including the prototypal dweller Ruby Conference.
He has digit degrees in machine power from the University of river and taught machine power for quaternary eld before agitated to Austin, Texas to impact as a fasciculus for variouscompanies, including IBM Austin. Hal currently entireness at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, maintaining a super accumulation depot and attendant medium applications, employed regular with C++, Oracle, and, of course, Ruby.
About the Author
Hal discoverer has digit degrees in machine power from the University of Mississippi. He taught machine power for quaternary eld at the accord college take before agitated to Austin, Texas, for a program of contracts (mainly at IBM Austin). He has worked for more than 15 eld with different forms of UNIX, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was prototypal unclothed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began impact on the prototypal edition of this book, which was the ordinal Ruby aggregation in the arts language. He has attended sextet Ruby conferences and has presented presentations at quaternary of those, including the prototypal dweller Ruby Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He currently entireness at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, employed on a super accumulation depot and attendant medium applications. He entireness regular with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby.
Hal is ease astir regular on the Ruby transmitting itemize and IRC channel, and has individual Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In his individualized life, he enjoys music, reading, writing, art, and photography. He is a member of the Mars Society and is a expanse protagonist who would fuck to go into expanse before he dies. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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