Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

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作者：Peter Cooper
出版日期：July 20, 2009
出版社：Apress
页数：656
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430223634 ISBN-13: 978-1430223634
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
Based on the best-selling first edition, Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition is the leading guide for every type of reader who wants to learn Ruby from the ground up.The new edition of this book provides the same excellentintroduction to Ruby as the first edition plus updates for the newestversion of Ruby, including the addition of the Sinatra and Ramaze webapplication frameworks and a chapter on GUI development so developerscan take advantage of these new trends.
Beginning Ruby starts by explaining the principles behindobject-oriented programming and within a few chapters builds towardcreating a full Ruby application. By the end of the book, in additionto in-depth knowledge of Ruby, you’ll also have basic understanding ofmany ancillary technologies such as SQL, XML, web frameworks, andnetworking.

• Introduces readers to the Ruby programming language
• Takes readers from basic programming skills to web development with topics like Ruby-based frameworks and GUI programming
• Covers many ancillary technologies in order to provide a broader picture (e.g., databases, XML, network daemons)

What you’ll learn

• Understand the basics of Ruby and object-oriented building blocks.
• Work with Ruby libraries, gems, and documentation.
• Work with files and databases.
• Write and deploy Ruby applications.
• Explore Ruby web frameworks and aspects of network programming with Ruby.
• Develop desktop and GUI applications with Ruby.

Who is this book for?Beginning programmers, programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language
About the Author
Peter Cooper is an experienced Ruby developer, trainer, and publisherwho runs Ruby Inside, the most popular blog in the Ruby and Railsworlds, with 18,000 subscribers. He also curates RubyFlow, a popularRuby community link blog. Over the past few years he has developed,launched, and sold two startups (Feed Digest and Code Snippets), bothpowered by Ruby and Rails.