Huw Collingbourne

The Book of Ruby

A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A practical guide to rapid, real-world application development with the Ruby programming language.
- Over a million professional Ruby programmers currently, with nearly five million expected by 2013
- Beginner-friendly, accessible approach
- Includes short, ready-to-run code examples to illustrate each topic
-Author well-known for his work on Ruby In Steel, the premier Ruby IDE

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Starch Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 176mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 758g
• ISBN-13: 9781593272944
• ISBN-10: 1593272944
• Artikelnr.: 33315110

Autorenporträt

Huw Collingbourne is the Director of Technology for SapphireSteel Software, developer of the Ruby In Steel IDE. With 30 years of programming experience, he has written programming columns for numerous magazines, presented features on computing for BBC Television, and currently edits the online technical journal Bitwise Magazine. He has previously released two free ebooks on Ruby—The Little Book of Ruby and The Book of Ruby.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Strings, Numbers, Classes, and Objects
Chapter 2: Class Hierarchies, Attributes, and Class Variables
Chapter 3: Strings and Ranges
Chapter 4: Arrays and Hashes
Chapter 5: Loops and Iterators
Chapter 6: Conditional Statements
Chapter 7: Methods
Chapter 8: Passing Arguments and Returning Values
Chapter 9: Exception Handling
Chapter 10: Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas
Chapter 11: Symbols
Chapter 12: Modules and Mixins
Chapter 13: Files and IO
Chapter 14: YAML
Chapter 15: Marshal
Chapter 16: Regular Expressions
Chapter 17: Threads
Chapter 18: Debugging and Testing
Chapter 19: Ruby on Rails
Chapter 20: Dynamic Programming
Appendix A: Documenting Ruby with RDoc
Appendix B: Installing MySQL for Ruby on Rails
Appendix C: Further Reading
Appendix D: Ruby and Rails Development Software

Rezensionen

"I'm no longer afraid of Ruby or daunted by its syntax. If you're looking for a good introduction to the language The Book of Ruby should be on your buying list."
Craig Buckler, OptimalWorks Web Design

"Collingbourne knows his subject and if you are a software developer wanting to learn more about Ruby there is plenty of valuable material here."
Tim Anderson, ITWriting

"The Book of Ruby is not just technically good or accurate, it is truly well written."
Ecommerce Developer

"Recommended for established developers new to Ruby."
Dr. Dobb's Developer Reading List

"If you are interested in learning Ruby then this is the book for you."
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

"A nicely written (and nicely printed) guide to Ruby that covers everything you would expect from a Ruby guide in untiring detail."
Durham University Computing Society

"Covers all the fundamentals of the language, as well as gives a great start into the Rails framework and dynamic programming."
Sean Patterson, Fresh Consulting