Ruby Books
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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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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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Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails
Published 12 years ago
by Maik Schmidt, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails helps you to overcome typical obstacles hidden in every enterprise's infrastructure. It doesn't matter if your Rails application needs to access your company's message-oriented middleware or if it has to scan through tons of huge XML documents to get a missing piece of data. Ruby and Rails enable you to create solutions that are both elegant and efficient. With more than 50 concise, targeted recipes, this book shows you how to use existing infrastructure
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The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Apress
Django, the Python–based equivalent to the Ruby on Rails web development framework, is presently one of the hottest topics in web development today. In The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django’s creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan–Moss show you how they use this framework to create award–winning web sites.
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Practical Ruby for System Administration
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Andr Ben Hamou, Apress
Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are discovering that Rubys flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment.
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IronRuby Unleashed
Published 11 years ago
by Shay Friedman, Sams Publishing
Ruby has built an enormous following of developers attracted by its intuitiveness, flexibility, and simplicity. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s .NET has grown and matured into a platform of unparalleled power. IronRuby brings them together, enabling developers to write elegant, efficient Ruby code that seamlessly integrates with .NET objects and leverages .NET’s full capabilities.
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Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)
Published 11 years ago
by Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, Scott Guthrie, Wrox
This book begins with you working along as Scott Guthrie builds a complete ASP.NET MVC reference application. He begins NerdDinner by using the File->New Project menu command within Visual Studio to create a new ASP.NET MVC Application. You'll then incrementally add functionality and features. Along the way you'll cover how to create a database, build a model layer with business rule validations, implement listing/details data browsing, provide CRUD (Create, Update, Delete) data for
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Practical Rails Projects
Published 13 years ago includes sample chapter
by Eldon Alameda, Apress
The best way to learn Rails is by creating a variety of applications with it. You already know the basics of Rails, and you’re familiar with the exciting features and benefits associated with using this Ruby–based framework. You’re now at the point where you need to gain firsthand experience with Rails by thoroughly exploring the features and building several different types of web applications.
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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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Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Published 13 years ago
by David Berube, Apress
Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow.