Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

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When Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, authors of The Pragmatic Programmer, published the first edition of Programming Ruby in 2000, it was the first English language Ruby book. Ruby documentation was so scant that they had to study the source code to do it, as Ruby's author, Matz, explains in his foreword. For 2005, they revised it to cover Ruby 1.8, the latest major release.



Though there are now several other Ruby books, Programming Ruby is still trying to do it all -- language tutorial, language reference, a guide to thinking in Ruby (which includes thinking in objects), and an introduction to the Ruby community's conventions. The book is broader than it is deep, but, given its breadth, that's praising with faint damns.



It's not a book for a programming novice, but the language tutorial was thorough and clear. Moderately experienced programmers should have no problems with it. If you've done object-oriented and functional programming before, it'll be easy going.



I was impressed by how much the book includes of what you need to actually develop in Ruby -- trying code snippets in the interactive Ruby shell, debugging, watching out for Ruby's gotchas, developing a test suite, documenting (in Rdoc, a Ruby standard), packaging code into a Ruby Gem (RubyGems is Ruby's equivalent to Perl's CPAN), profiling your code to find the slow parts, and how to extend Ruby in C to speed them up.



There's a brief survey of using Ruby for Web, Tk, and Win32 programming. The book's emphasis on breadth over depth is most obvious here -- 18 pages on web programming doesn't just cover CGI programming, but touches on cookies, session maintenance, two template systems for HTML generation, eruby (a means of embedding Ruby in HTML, like PHP, Mason, PSP, or the other *SPs), SOAP, WSDL, and the Google API.

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Published in 2004
ISBN 0974514055  Size 5.05MB

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