Friday, October 30, 2009

Ruby Cookbook








Ruby Cookbook
By
Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: July 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-52369-6
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652369-5

Pages: 906
 

Table of Contents
 | Index



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

something for every programmer. Beginners and advanced
Rubyists

alike will learn how to program with:



  • Strings and
    numbers

  • Arrays and hashes

  • Classes, modules, and
    namespaces

  • Reflection and
    metaprogramming

  • XML and HTML
    processing

  • Ruby on Rails (including Ajax
    integration)

  • Databases

  • Graphics

  • Internet services like email, SSH, and
    BitTorrent

  • Web services

  • Multitasking

  • Graphical and terminal
    interfaces





If you need to write a web application, this book
shows you

how to get started with Rails. If you're a system
administrator who

needs to

rename thousands of files, you'll see how to use Ruby for
this and

other everyday tasks. You'll learn how to read and write
Excel

spreadsheets, classify text with Bayesian filters, and
create PDF

files. We've even included a few silly tricks that were too
cool to

leave out, like how to blink the lights on your
keyboard.





The Ruby Cookbook is the most useful
book yet

written about Ruby. When you need to solve a problem, don't
reinvent

the wheel: look it up in

the Cookbook.








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