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Programming Ruby

The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

by Chad Fowler, David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

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... (more)

Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)

Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Mike Clark, David Thomas, Leon Breedt, David Heinemeier Hansson

Rails is a full-stack, open source web framework that enables you to create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications, but with a twist... A full Rails application probably has less total code than the XML you'd need to configure the same application in other frameworks. With this book you'll learn how to use ActiveRecord to connect business objects and database tables. No more painful... (more)

Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

by David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson

-The word is out: with Ruby on Rails you can build powerful Web applications easily and quickly! And just like the Rails framework itself, Rails applications are Ruby programs. That means you can't tap into the full power of Rails unless you master the Ruby language. Ruby for Rails , written by Ruby expert David Black (with a forward by David Heinemeier Hansson), helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery.... (more)

Ruby Way,The: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition)

Ruby Way,The: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition)

by Hal Edwin Fulton

Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book. The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby programming with the bulk of the material consisting of more than 400 examples arranged by topic. Each example answers the question... (more)

The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator,... (more)

Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

by Leonard Richardson, Lucas Carlson

Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects. From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the Ruby Cookbook has... (more)

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

by Curt Hibbs, Bruce Tate

Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featured web applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications that once took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter of days. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't. If you're like a lot of web developers, you've probably considered kicking the tires on Rails - the framework of choice for the new generation of Web 2.0... (more)

Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Chad Fowler

Rails is large, powerful, and new. How do you use it effectively? How do you harness the power? And, most important, how do you get high quality, real-world applications written? From the latest Ajax effects to time-saving automation tips for your development process, Rails Recipes will show you how the experts have already solved the problems you have. Use generators to automate repetitive coding tasks.... (more)

Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

Design Patterns in Ruby (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series)

by Russ Olsen

Praise for Design Patterns in Ruby " Design Patterns in Ruby documents smart ways to resolve many problems that Ruby developers commonly encounter. Russ Olsen has done a great job of selecting classic patterns and augmenting these with newer patterns that have special relevance for Ruby. He clearly explains each idea, making a wealth of experience available to Ruby developers for their own daily work." ... (more)

Extreme Programming with Ruby on Rails (Video LiveLessons) (LiveLessons)

Extreme Programming with Ruby on Rails (Video LiveLessons) (LiveLessons)

by Obie Fernandez

The expert guide to building Ruby on Rails applications Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value. Now, for the first time, there’s a comprehensive, authoritative guide to building production-quality software with Rails. Pioneering Rails developer Obie Fernandez and a team of experts illuminate... (more)

Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)

Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Chris Pine

It's now easier to learn to write your own computer software than it has ever been before. Now everyone can learn to write programs for themselves--no previous experience is necessary. Chris Pine takes a thorough, but light-hearted approach that teaches you how to program with a minimum of fuss or bother. Starting with small, simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you'll see how to have... (more)

Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers)

Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers)

by James Edward II. Gray

Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions. You'll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including: 800 Numbers Crosswords Cryptograms Knight's Tour Paper, Rock, Scissors Tic-Tac-Toe Texas Hold-Em ...and more. Learning to program can be quite a challenge. Classes and books can get you so far, but at... (more)

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional)

by Jarkko Laine

Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is the first book of its kind to guide you through producing e-commerce applications with Railsthe stacked web framework taking the world by storm. The book dives right into the process of creating a production-level web application using agile methodologies and test-driven development combined with Rails best practices. Youll take advantage of the... (more)

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Application

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Application

by Patrick Lenz

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? This practical hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails programmers will walk you through installing the required software on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer. And before you get coding, an entire chapter is devoted to object oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be completely confident... (more)

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

by Peter Cooper

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... (more)

Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails

Head First Rails: A learner's companion to Ruby on Rails

by David Griffiths

Ready to transport your web applications into the Web 2.0 era? Head First Rails takes your programming -- and productivity -- to the max. You'll learn everything from the fundamentals of Rails scaffolding to building customized interactive web apps using Rails' rich set of tools and the MVC framework. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned more than just another web framework. You'll master... (more)

Agile Web Development with Rails

by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Hansson, David Heinemeier Hansson

You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management. But Rails is more than a set of best practices. Rails makes it both fun and easy to turn out very cool... (more)

The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends

The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends

by David Chelimski, Dave Astels, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesoy, Chelimsky David, Astels Dave, Helmkamp Bryan, North Dan, Dennis Zach, Hellesoy Aslak

Behaviour Driven Development is about writing software that matters. It is an approach to agile software development that takes cues from Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test Driven Planning. RSpec and Cucumber are the leading Behaviour Driven Development tools in Ruby. RSpec supports Test Driven Development in Ruby through the BDD lens, keeping your focus on design and... (more)

Railsspace: Building a Social Networking Website With Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

Railsspace: Building a Social Networking Website With Ruby on Rails (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby)

by Michael Hartl

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook, or Friendster. Inside, the authors walk you step by step from the... (more)

Simply Rails 2.0

by Patrick Lenz

Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails 2.0, the web application framework that is inspiring developers around the world? The second edition of this practical, hands on book will: show you how to install Ruby on Rails on Windows, Mac, or Linux walk you, step by step, through the development of a Web 2.0 social news application, just like digg.com show you how to test, debug, benchmark, and deploy... (more)

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The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide

by Chad Fowler, David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

by Mike Clark, David Thomas, Leon Breedt, David Heinemeier Hansson

by David A. Black, David Heinemeier Hansson

by Hal Edwin Fulton

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

by Leonard Richardson, Lucas Carlson

by Curt Hibbs, Bruce Tate

by Chad Fowler

by Russ Olsen

by Obie Fernandez

by Chris Pine

by James Edward II. Gray

by Jarkko Laine

by Patrick Lenz

by Peter Cooper

by David Griffiths

by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Hansson, David Heinemeier Hansson

by David Chelimski, Dave Astels, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesoy, Chelimsky David, Astels Dave, Helmkamp Bryan, North Dan, Dennis Zach, Hellesoy Aslak

by Michael Hartl

by Patrick Lenz