Ruby Books
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Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
Published 10 years ago
by Michael Hartl, Addison-Wesley Professional
The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps.—Peter Cooper, editor of Ruby InsideLearn Rails 3 Development Hands-On, from a World-Class ExpertUsing Rails 3, developers can build web applications of exceptional elegance and power. Although its remarkable capabilities have made Ruby on Rails one of the world’s most popular web development frameworks, it can be challenging to learn and use.
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Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series
Published 10 years ago
by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh, Addison-Wesley Professional
The Complete Guide to Avoiding and Fixing Common Rails 3 Code and Design ProblemsAs developers worldwide have adopted the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework, many have fallen victim to common mistakes that reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. Rails™ AntiPatterns identifies these widespread Rails code and design problems, explains why they’re bad and why they happen—and shows exactly what to do instead.
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C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0), The (4th Edition) (Microsoft .NET Development Series
Published 10 years ago
by Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde, Addison-Wesley Professional
“Based on my own experience, I can safely say that every .NET developer who reads this will have at least one ‘aha’ moment and will be a better developer for it.”—From the Foreword by Don BoxThe popular C# programming language combines the high productivity of rapid application development languages with the raw power of C and C++. Updated to cover the new features of C# 4.
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Methods in Medical Informatics: Fundamentals of Healthcare Programming in Perl, Python, and Ruby (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mat
Published 10 years ago
by Jules J. Berman, Chapman and Hall/CRC
Too often, healthcare workers are led to believe that medical informatics is a complex field that can only be mastered by teams of professional programmers. This is simply not the case. With just a few dozen simple algorithms, easily implemented with open source programming languages, you can fully utilize the medical information contained in clinical and research datasets. The common computational tasks of medical informatics are accessible to anyone willing to learn the basics.
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Domain-Specific Languages (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler
Published 10 years ago
by Martin Fowler, Addison-Wesley Professional
When carefully selected and used, Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) may simplify complex code, promote effective communication with customers, improve productivity, and unclog development bottlenecks. In Domain-Specific Languages, noted software development expert Martin Fowler first provides the information software professionals need to decide if and when to utilize DSLs.
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Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages
Published 10 years ago
by Bruce A. Tate, Pragmatic Bookshelf
Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than serve as a complete reference or installation guide, Seven Languages hits what's essential and unique about each language.
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Service-Oriented Design with Ruby and Rails
Published 10 years ago
by Paul Dix, Addison-Wesley Professional
The Complete Guide to Building Highly Scalable, Services-Based Rails ApplicationsRuby on Rails deployments are growing, and Rails is increasingly being adopted in larger environments. Today, Rails developers and architects need better ways to interface with legacy systems, move into the cloud, and scale to handle higher volumes and greater complexity.
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Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby
Published 10 years ago
by Chang Sau Sheong, Packt Publishing
Make clones of some of the best applications on the Web using the dynamic and object-oriented features of Ruby *Build your own custom social networking, URL shortening, and photo sharing websites using Ruby *Deploy and launch your custom high-end web applications *Learn what makes popular social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook tick *Understand features of some of the most famous photo sharing and social networking websites
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Learning Rails: Live Edition
Published 10 years ago
by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly Media
Ready to learn Rails? Get up to speed using the framework’s latest release. In this Live Edition, Learning Rails has been updated to cover Rails 2.3.5, making it an ideal guide for Rails beginners.Unlike most Rails books, Learning Rails is for web developers, and not for programmers. Rather than begin with the inner layers of a Rails web application -- the models and controllers -- this book approaches Rails development from the outer layer: the view side of an application.
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Test Drive ASP.NET MVC
Published 10 years ago
by Jonathan McCracken, Pragmatic Bookshelf
ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is C# on the web done right. No more fiddling around with Viewstate, IsPostBack(), and drag-and-drop coding. Microsoft has addressed the shortcomings of ASP.NET and created a framework that goes toe-to-toe with other popular web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails. Programming in C# is fun again!This book takes a test-first approach to the main features of ASP.NET MVC.