Programming Ruby (edit title)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of Programming Ruby Friday, August 21 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Programming Ruby Thursday, August 13 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Chad Fowler: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Edited a contributor: Andrew Hunt: (Primary NoneAuthor)

Timothy Gray changed the title of Programming Ruby Thursday, August 13 2009.

Timothy Gray denied Andrés C’s request to change the title of Programming Ruby Thursday, August 13 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Programming Ruby Friday, July 31 2009.

• Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. Now in its Second Edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. The definitive reference to the language. Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries. If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the new and expanded content, including: enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the world-wide web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side" --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks

Shelfari edited the contributors of Programming Ruby Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: David Thomas: (Primary Author)
• Added a contributor: Andrew Hunt: (Primary None)
• Added a contributor: Chad Fowler: (Primary None)

Andrés C requested a change to the title of Programming Ruby Tuesday, July 14 2009.