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Ruby in Practice Jeremy McAnally and Assaf Arkin MEAP Release: September 2007 Softbound print: August 2008 (est.) | 375 pages ISBN: 1933988479 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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1. Ruby under microscope - FREE 2. Testing Ruby - AVAILABLE 3. Integration with Ruby - AVAILABLE 4. Rails techniques - AVAILABLE 5. Web services - AVAILABLE 6. Automating communication - AVAILABLE 7. Asynchronous messaging - AVAILABLE 8. Deployment and management - AVAILABLE |
9. Databases - AVAILABLE 10. Structured documents - AVAILABLE 11. Authentication and identity brokering - AVAILABLE 12. Indexing and searching - AVAILABLE 13. Document processing and reporting - AVAILABLE Appendix A. Installing Ruby - AVAILABLE Appendix B. JRuby - AVAILABLE Appendix C. Deploying web apps - AVAILABLE |
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DESCRIPTION
The best tool is the one that gets the job done in the most efficient and effective way possible. Many developers are discovering that the best often happens to be Ruby. As the authors of Ruby in Practice observe, by using Ruby you can impress your friends, appease your boss, get work done, have fun, go home early, and have a life.
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. This book won't help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time.
In this book, you'll learn valuable techniques like how to:
- Expose an existing Ruby library to a Rails application in a natural way
- Master structured formats like XML, RSS, Atom, XHTML, YAML, and CSV
- Securely store and authenticate passwords
- Index and search via query any set of documents
- Generate scheduled reports in Ruport
Above all, Ruby in Practice is a practical book for developers who want an in depth understanding of the Ruby language and its toolset. The book is divided into three major parts.
The first part concentrates on issues that developers face both from within their organizations and from their peers. The authors weigh the costs and benefits of using Ruby in enterprise development projects, the over-riding theme being that every developer should always aim to use the right tool for any particular job. The authors then examine the pros and cons of developing with Ruby, and where appropriate, compare Ruby to other languages, both conceptually and in code. The authors also focus on explaining the Ruby way of developing software, especially large-scale software, and using Ruby as a tool for integration.
The second part discusses techniques for communication and integration of systems. The authors describe how libraries and techniques are used to facilitate messaging, web development and communication automation. They also focus on how the strategies in the first section can be used with these libraries to make development more flexible and efficient.
The last part shows how to manage data and integrate with existing data using Ruby. The authors describe techniques for using existing Ruby libraries that either replace popular Java libraries or can interface with existing data in a different way. They go on to show you how strategies covered in the first section can be used to enable Ruby to interact with existing assets or to build new data systems.
WHAT'S INSIDE:
- Practical examples that solve common business software problems
- Analysis of Ruby development practices
- Examples of using Ruby as a glue language
About the Authors
Jeremy McAnally has been programming for about 8 years and doing graphic design for 4 years. He is currently a freelance Ruby and Rails developer, consultant, and author. He has over three years experience with Ruby and almost two years with Rails; in that time he has developed a number of small, localized intranet systems and medium- to large-scale systems in Ruby.
Assaf Arkin got bitten by the business software bug in '89, back when client-servers were the thing and C was a reasonable language for writing business logic. In '96 he switched to Java, and gave up client-servers for Web apps. In '99 he discovered the beauty of XML and the appeal of open source, and was a founding member of XML Apache. In '05 he fell for Ruby's charms and has been using it since for development and for plugging holes that Java left behind.
High-profile Rubyists David Black, Gregory Brown, Peter Cooper, Yehuda Katz, and Luke Melia round out the team.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of Ruby in Practice enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Forum
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