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Ruby Developers Guide

  • 1st Edition - February 6, 2002
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Syngress
  • Language: English

An expert guide to Ruby, a popular new Object-Oriented Programming LanguageRuby is quickly becoming a favourite among developers who need a simple, straight forward, portabl… Read more

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Description

An expert guide to Ruby, a popular new Object-Oriented Programming Language

Ruby is quickly becoming a favourite among developers who need a simple, straight forward, portable programming language. Ruby is ideal for quick and easy object-oriented programming such as processing text files or performing system management. Having been compared with other programming languages such as Perl, Python, PCL, Java, Eiffel, and C++; Ruby is popular because of its straight forward syntax and transparent semantics.
Using step-by-step examples and real world applications, the Ruby Developer's Guide is designed for programmers and developer's looking to embrace the object-oriented features and functionality of this robust programming language. Readers will learn how to develop, implement, organize and deploy applications using Ruby.

Key features

  • Ruby is currently experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the object-oriented programming community
  • Readers receive up-to-the minute links, white papers, and analysis for two years at [email protected]
  • Comes with a wallet-sized CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code examples and demos of popular Ruby third-party programming tools and applications

Readership

Written for developer's looking to extend their skills. A fundamental knowledge of Ruby is assumed

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Booting Ruby
Chapter 2: GUI Toolkits
Chapter 3: Databases and Data-Storages
Chapter 4: XML and Ruby
Chapter 5: Concurrent and Distributed Ruby
Chapter 6: World Wide Web and Networking Applications
Chapter 7: Libraries and Tools
Chapter 8: Specifications and Testing
Chapter 9: Profiling and Performance Tuning
Chapter 10: Ruby Best Practice Patterns
Chapter 11: Parsers and Code Generators
Chapter 12: Ruby Internals
Chapter 13: Extending and Embedding Ruby
Chapter 14: Ruby Solutions Fast Track

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 8, 2002
  • Language: English

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