Ruby Books
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ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed
Published 11 years ago
by Stephen Walther, Sams
ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed explains everything you need to know to start building web applications with the new Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework. This book makes no assumptions about your background knowledge about MVC. All code samples are included in both Visual Basic .NET and C#. You learn how to take advantage of the ASP.NET MVC framework to build highly testable web applications. You learn how to create tests for every part of an MVC application including its data access code.
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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional
Published 11 years ago
by Peter Cooper, Apress
Based on the best-selling first edition, Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition is the leading guide for every type of reader who wants to learn Ruby from the ground up.The new edition of this book provides the same excellent introduction to Ruby as the first edition plus updates for the newest version of Ruby, including the addition of the Sinatra and Ramaze web application frameworks and a chapter on GUI development so developers can take advantage of these new trends.
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Practical Rails with jQuery Projects (Practical Projects)
Published 11 years ago
by Andrew Chalkley, Apress
jQuery’s popularity in the Ruby on Rails community has been growing in recent months. jQuery, with its unobtrusive nature, has got developers thinking in ways that they haven’t done before. jQuery is doing for the implementation of JavaScript what CSS did for the old school table layouts. Ruby on Rails, with its convention over configuration and full stack, makes it extremely simple (and secure) to get a professional web application up and running.
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Grails in Action
Published 11 years ago
by Glen Smith, Peter Ledbrook, Manning Publications
For web developers used to wrestling with Java and XML, Grails is a breath of fresh air. Developers are instantly productive, picking up all the benefits of the Ruby-based Rails framework without giving up any of the power of Java. Grails in Action is a comprehensive look at Grails for Java developers. It covers the nuts and bolts of the core Grails components and is jam-packed with tutorials, techniques, and insights from the trenches.
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Erlang Programming
Published 11 years ago
by Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson, O'Reilly Media
This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent programs in Erlang, regardless of your programming background or experience.
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Ruby Best Practices
Published 11 years ago
by Gregory Brown, O'Reilly Media
How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more.
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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Second Edition
Published 11 years ago
by Adrian Holovaty, Jacob KaplanMoss, Apress
This latest edition of The Definitive Guide to Django is updated for Django 1.1, and, with the forward–compatibility guarantee that Django now provides, should serve as the ultimate tutorial and reference for this popular framework for years to come. Django, the Python–based equivalent to Ruby’s Rails web development framework, is one of the hottest topics in web development today.
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Regular Expressions Cookbook
Published 11 years ago
by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan, O'Reilly Media
This cookbook provides more than 100 recipes to help you crunch data and manipulate text with regular expressions. Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs.
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist
Published 11 years ago
by David A. Black, Manning Publications
The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. Whether the topic is simple or tough, the book's easy-to-follow examples and explanations will give you immediate confidence as you build your Ruby programming skills.
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Beginning Scala
Published 11 years ago
by David Pollak, Apress
The open source Scala language is a Java–based dynamic scripting, functional programming language. Moreover, this highly scalable scripting language lends itself well to building Cloud–based/deliverable Software as a Service (SaaS) online applications.Written by Lift Scala web framework founder and lead Dave Pollak, Beginning Scala takes a down–to–earth approach to teaching Scala that leads you through simple examples that can be combined to build complex, scalable systems and applications.