Ruby Books
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Restful Web Services
Published 13 years ago
by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby, O'Reilly Media
"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." -- David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework"RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." -- Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services EvangelistYou've built web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines?
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Practical Ruby Gems
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by David Berube, Apress
Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gemsready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects. Youll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book.
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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Peter Cooper, Apress
Ruby is perhaps best known as the engine powering the hugely popular Ruby on Rails web framework. However, it is an extremely powerful and versatile programming language in its own right. It focuses on simplicity and offers a fully object-oriented environment. Beginning Ruby is a thoroughly contemporary guide for every type of reader wanting to learn Ruby, from novice programmers to web developers to Ruby newcomers.
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Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)
Published 14 years ago
by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett, Wrox
Professional Ajax 2nd Edition provides a developer-level tutorial of Ajax techniques, patterns, and use cases. The book begins by exploring the roots of Ajax, covering how the evolution of the web and new technologies directly led to the development of Ajax techniques. A detailed discussion of how frames, JavaScript, cookies, XML, and XMLHttp requests (XHR) related to Ajax is included. After this introduction, the book moves on to cover the implementation of specific Ajax techniques.
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Beginning JBoss Seam: From Novice to Professional
Published 14 years ago includes sample chapter
by Joseph Faisal Nusairat, Apress
Reacting to the popularity of J2EE™ alternatives such as Ruby on Rails and the enterprise Spring Framework, Red Hat JBoss®, Inc. developed JBoss® Seam, a new open source lightweight Java™ EE 5-based contextual application development framework. Beginning JBoss® Seam: From Novice to Professional gets you started as the first book on this popular framework.
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MySQL Cookbook
Published 14 years ago
by Paul DuBois, O'Reilly Media
Along with MySQL's popularity has come a flood of questions about solving specific problems, and that's where this Cookbook is essential. Designed as a handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, the book offers dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out examples for programmers of all levels who don't have the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch. The new edition covers MySQL 5.
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Groovy in Action
Published 14 years ago
by Dierk Koenig, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, Jon Skeet, Manning Publications
"... a clear and detailed exposition of what is groovy about Groovy. I'm glad to have it on my bookshelf." --From the Foreword by James Gosling Groovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides.
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Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy
Published 14 years ago
by Justin Williams, friends of ED
In this book you'll learn: How to develop web applications quickly and easily with the Ruby on Rails framework The basics of programming principles and Ruby syntax, so you can begin to understand whats going on under the hood How to implement must-have web application features, such as user accounts, data validation, sending e-mail, image uploading, and more How to use Ajax techniques with Rails and when not to use them How to implement other Web 2.
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Ajax on Rails
Published 14 years ago
by Scott Raymond, O'Reilly Media
Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most important approaches to web development today: Ajax and the phenomenally efficient Ruby on Rails platform. This book teaches intermediate to advanced web developers how to use both Ajax and Rails to quickly build high-performance, scalable applications without being overwhelmed with thousands of lines of JavaScript code.
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Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition
Published 14 years ago
by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, Andreas Schwarz, Pragmatic Bookshelf
The definitive, Jolt-award winning guide to learning and using Rails is now in its Second Edition. Rails is a new approach to web-based application development that enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications using less code and less effort. Now programmers can get the job done right and still leave work on time. NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: The book has been updated to take advantage of all the new Rails 1.2 features.