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.

Ruby is currently experiencing a rapid rise in popularity in the object-oriented programming community

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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

This guide for developers describes how to create applications using the Ruby object-oriented programming language. This is not an introductory text, and it is expected that the reader has at least a basic understanding of Ruby. A sampling of topics includes using GUI toolkits; programming with Ruby's database-independent- interface; and connecting two or more applications across a network using Distributed Ruby (Drb).
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"Ruby Developer's Guide" discusses the role of Ruby in real-world applications, including the use of databases and XML, the coding of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) by means of different toolkits, communicating with other languages over SOAP/XML-RPC or sockets, and the programming of concurrent and distributed applications. Using step-by-step examples and real-world applications, the book is designed for programmers and developers looking to embrace the object-oriented features and functionality of this robust programming language.

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