Ruby in practice / Jeremy McAnally, Assaf Arkin ; with Yehuda Katz [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McAnally, Jeremy, author.

Arkin, Assaf, author.

Contributor:

Katz, Yehuda, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 324 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Greenwich, Connecticut : Manning Publications, [2009]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ruby in Practice increases your productivity by showing you specific Ruby techniques you can use in your projects. The book offers detailed strategies for using Ruby in a large-scale environment. You'll see concrete examples of integration, messaging, web development, and databases, all presented in a clear Problem/Solution format. This book won't help you push your deadline back, but it will help you get the job done in less time. Above all, Ruby in Practice is a practical book for developers who want an in depth understanding of the Ruby language and its toolset. The book is divided into three major parts. The first part concentrates on issues that developers face both from within their organizations and from their peers. The authors weigh the costs and benefits of using Ruby in enterprise development projects, the over-riding theme being that every developer should always aim to use the right tool for any particular job. The authors then examine the pros and cons of developing with Ruby, and where appropriate, compare Ruby to other languages, both conceptually and in code. The second part discusses techniques for communication and integration of systems. The authors describe how libraries and techniques are used to facilitate messaging, web development and communication automation. They also focus on how the strategies in the first section can be used with these libraries to make development more flexible and efficient. The last part shows how to manage data and integrate with existing data using Ruby. The authors describe techniques for using existing Ruby libraries that either replace popular Java libraries or can interface with existing data in a different way. They go on to show you how strategies covered in the first section can be used to enable Ruby to interact with existing assets or to build new data systems.

Contents:

Intro

Copyright

Dedication

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

Part 1. Ruby techniques

Chapter 1. Ruby under the microscope

Chapter 2. Testing Ruby

Chapter 3. Scripting with Ruby

Part 2. Integration and communication

Chapter 4. Ruby on Rails techniques

Chapter 5. Web services

Chapter 6. Automating communication

Chapter 7. Asynchronous messaging

Chapter 8. Deployment

Part 3. Data and document techniques

Chapter 9. Database facilities and techniques

Chapter 10. Structured documents

Chapter 11. Identity and authentication

Chapter 12. Searching and indexing

Chapter 13. Document processing and reporting

Appendix A. Installing Ruby

Appendix B. JRuby

Appendix C. Deploying web apps

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781638354819

1638354812

OCLC:

1257076429