Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0974514055 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 829 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Dave Thomas, as one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, understands agility. And, as an active Rails developer, he knows Rails.. As the author of "Programming Ruby," he understands Ruby
The Pickaxe contains four major sections:An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.The definitive reference to the language.Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methodsComplete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries.If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems, and other web services. Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. There's even a new chapter on unit testing.
"New to Ruby, got this one on the cheap" according to D. Rust. New to Ruby, got this one on the cheap because it's so old. Just ordered the newer one and I think that will fix the problems that seem to exist with the code samples. I'm sure they worked at the time it was released.. "This book gets me home late!" according to Gaston Draque. This is "the book" if you want to learn Ruby. I had my share of the web-search-print-and-try approach to get a taste on Ruby, and after reading this book I can say I haven't been so pleased to learn a programming language in a while.This book it's proof of what the "Ruby way" is. It doesn't just walk you through the details, dos and don'ts of the programming language, it allows the reader to grasp the practice of the "Ruby way" of doing things. And it's a clean, elegant, yet powerful way!It's been such a nice experience it got me home late. Must have for any Ruby programmer I'm not sure how much the times have changed, but I got the second edition of this book on pre-order. At that time it was a fantastic references. It told me everything I ever wanted to know about the Ruby language. From the nice tutorials at the beginning to the excellent language and API reference toward the back. It even goes into some of the nitty gritty implementation details and has a chapter on writing C extensions.
About the AuthorDave Thomas, as one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, understands agility. As the author of "Programming Ruby," he understands Ruby. And, as an active Rails developer, he knows Rails.