Collingbourne H. The Book Of Ruby

Apress, 2007. - 664 pages. First Edition. ISBN: 978-1590597668 Ruby is a fun toy. It’s also a serious programming language. Ruby is the jolly uncle who keeps the kids entertained, but who puts in solid 12-hour days at the construction site during the week. To hundreds of thousands of programmers, Ruby has become a good friend, a trusted servant, and has revealed a new way of...

Apress, 2007. - 328 pages. ISBN: 159059911X Each chapter in this book turns Ruby loose on a new interesting problem or project. They range from creative endeavors to investigative simulations to the exploration of computer programming languages themselves. Ruby is a programming language, but it’s also a tool to create, understand, and entertain. This book is all about Ruby....

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2009. — 480 p. — ISBN 978-0321603500. With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin...

Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, 2012. - 296 pages. 2nd edition, ISBN13: 978-1934356777 Database Recipes . Create Meaningful Many-to-Many Relationships. Create Declarative Named Queries. Connect to Multiple Databases. Set Default Criteria For Model Operations. Add Behavior to Active Record Associations. Create Polymorphic Associations. Version Your Models. Perform Calculations on...

O’Reilly Media, 2001. - 230 pages. 1st Edition. ISBN-13: 978-0596002145. Ruby is an object-oriented programming language developed for the purpose of making programming both enjoyable and fast. With its easy-to-use interpreter, easy-to-understand syntax, complete object-oriented functionality, and powerful class libraries, Ruby has become a language that can be used in a broad...

2009 by Manning Publications Co., 359p This book is geared toward software developers who know Ruby or who are starting with Ruby and want to put their skills to use solving real software-development problems. We’ll walk you through a series of common software scenarios, such as authenticating against LDAP or parsing XML, and show you how to approach and easily solve them using...