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This is a pretty awful book. The author has at best a tenuous grasp on object oriented programming. Pick up The Ruby Way instead.
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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
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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 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 improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major
If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the 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
Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major
If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the 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
829 pages, Paperback
First published December 15,2000
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829 pages, Paperback
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November 9, 2004 by Pragmatic Bookshelf
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9780974514055
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0974514055
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English
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Must have if you programming Ruby.
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Great book to learn ruby.
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You definitely shouldn't read it like a normal book... It's more like a "reference book"
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A very handy guide. Will keep around for checking up on things.
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Great reference work that also manages to be a good introduction to the language itself. Not the bets place for Ruby on Rails, but an essential addition to your Ruby library.
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The key reference for understanding the Ruby programming language. If you want to be up-to-speed on Ruby you've got to have this book. I also have the PDF version which is great to have if you're not by your bookshelf.
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Old but gold, back to the time where lamdba is frequently called Proc, reflection for the term metaprogramming, not surprising surprisingly Profiler. For me the diamonds are `Object-Oriented Design Libraries` and `Sharing Data Between Ruby and C` makes me think about native approachs POROs more than the go-get a library.
It provides a ground surface for new developer who wanted to step into Ruby, a beautiful interpreter language supporting OOP-first in its design. The patch for this book should be Ancestry chain to know deeper about the inheritance and newer Enum map-reduce for FP paradigm.
There are many ways to achieve a purpose in Ruby, the freedom of choice, to sail a ship into the ocean, to know the vast ocean, to gain the knowledge. Writing Ruby is a joy!
It provides a ground surface for new developer who wanted to step into Ruby, a beautiful interpreter language supporting OOP-first in its design. The patch for this book should be Ancestry chain to know deeper about the inheritance and newer Enum map-reduce for FP paradigm.
There are many ways to achieve a purpose in Ruby, the freedom of choice, to sail a ship into the ocean, to know the vast ocean, to gain the knowledge. Writing Ruby is a joy!
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