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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.117
EAN: 9780672328848
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0672328844
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 888
Publication Date: November 04, 2006
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:

Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.

The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby programming with the bulk of the material consisting of more than 400 examples arranged by topic. Each example answers the question “How do I do this in Ruby?” Working along with the author, you are presented with the task description and a discussion of the technical constraints. This is followed by a step-by-step presentation of one good solution. Along the way, the author provides detailed commentary and explanations to aid your understanding.

Coverage includes

• An overview of Ruby, explaining terminology and basic principles

• Operations on low-level data types (numbers, strings, regular expressions, dates)

• The new regular expression engine (Oniguruma)

• Internationalization (I18N) and message catalogs in Ruby

• Operations on hashes, arrays, and other data structures such as stacks, trees, and graphs

• Working with general I/O, files, and persistent objects

• Database coverage including MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, DBI, and more

• Ruby-specific techniques in OOP and dynamic programming

• Graphical interfaces in Ruby (Tk, GTK+, Fox, and Qt)

• Working with Ruby threads for lightweight multitasking

• Everyday scripting and system administration in Ruby

• Working with image files, PDFs, YAML, XML, RSS, and Atom

• Testing, debugging, profiling, and packaging Ruby code

• Low-level network programming and client-server interaction

• Web development tools including Rails, Nitro, Wee, IOWA, and more

• Working with distributed Ruby, Rinda, and Ring

• Ruby development tools such as IDEs, documentation tools, and more

The source code for the book can be downloaded from www.rubyhacker.com

Hal Fulton has worked for over 15 years with variousforms of Unix, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book–the second Ruby book published in the English language. He has attendednumerous Ruby conferences and has given presentations at several of those, including the first European Ruby Conference.

He has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi and taught computer science for four years before moving to Austin, Texas to work as a contractor for variouscompanies, including IBM Austin. Hal currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, maintaining a large data warehouse and related telecom applications, working daily with C++, Oracle, and, of course, Ruby.

Rating: - Not for everyone
If you want to learn or expand your knowledge and/or proficiency in Ruby as quickly as possible, this is NOT the book for you! Hal Fulton's "The Ruby Way" is an excellent example of a miserably poor technical literature. It presents us Ruby as if it were a rather obscure poorly defined powerful beast whose many features could never be seen completely at one time, leaving the reader in a suspense and waiting for missing information to appear in the following paragraphs, which may indeed never show ... Read More

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Rating: - Wow, what an incredible book and so many angles not usually covered!
I am thrilled by this book. So many books cover things like sockets without going into detail on important things like non-blocking I/O... which is what you usually need. There's enough detail and especially sensible code to make it an excellent reference even thougn it covers many topics.

A real treasure, and very readable as well as insightful. I've still got a lot of material to cover, and I'm looking forward to every minute of it.

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Rating: - A great reference point throughout your Ruby development lifetime
The Ruby Way

Ruby is best described as an object-oriented language, and is very similar to Smalltalk. Overall, the book is well written and contains useful examples throughout.

However, I feel the first point worth stating is that if you're new to Ruby then this book is not for you. Whilst it does cover Ruby in depth, it is aimed at the developer who has already mastered the basics of the Ruby language. Although readers who are familiar with Object orientated development ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent
This book is very thorough and a pleasure to read- there are great code examples in it as well.

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Rating: - Good Book for beginners
It is an excellent book for people new to Ruby, or having previous background in ObjectOriented languages. It provides detailed write ups with working examples.

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