About this Book

This is a book for the Ruby programmer who抯 never written a Mac app before. Through this hands-on tutorial, you抣l learn all about the Cocoa framework for programming on Mac OS X. Join the author抯 journey as this experienced Ruby programmer delves into the Cocoa framework right from the beginning, answering the same questions and solving the same problems that you抣l face.

Together you抣l build a single application that threads throughout the book, and it抯 not a toy. You抣l cover topics that may not be the flashiest parts of Cocoa, but they抮e ones you抣l need to know to create robust, feature-rich applications for yourself. And you抣l learn more than just Cocoa and RubyCocoa, you抣l get first-hand effective agile development practices. You抣l see test-first development of user-interface code, little domain-specific languages that take advantage of Ruby features, and other Rubyish tricks.

At the end of the book, you抣l be ready to write a real Mac OS X application that can be distributed to real users.

Contents and Extracts

• Full Table of Contents
• Introduction
• How Do We Get This Thing Started
• A First Realistic App
  • Working with Interface Builder and XCode
  • One Good App Observes Another
• Reshaping Fenestra
  • A Better GUI
  • Decoupled Controllers
  • Notifications Connect Decoupled Objects
  • More Expressive Code
• Project Mechanics
  • Bundling Gems and Libraries with Your App
  • Project Organization, Builds, and Your Favorite Editor
• Declarative Data Handling
  • Persistent User Preferences
  • Creating A Preference Panel in a New Nib
  • Implementing a Preference Panel with Cocoa Bindings
  • Setting Up Bindings with Code
• Fun with Tables
  • Prologue: Folders and Tests
  • Selections and Editing
  • Buttons in Tables
  • A Formatter with Two Wrinkles
  • Picking Files with Open Panels
  • Drag and Drop
  • Epilogue: A Wonderful World of Tests
• Wrapping Up
  • Fit and Finish
  • Adding Help
  • Document-Based Applications
  • MacRuby
• Reference
  • The Objective-C Bridge and Bridge Metadata
  • The Underpinnings of Cocoa Bindings

About the Author

Brian Marick learned Ruby in 2001 because Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, original authors of Programming Ruby, wouldn抰 let him off a shuttle bus until he said he would. He抯 been programming in it ever since, and he抯 made a special effort to teach it to software testers. His previous book is Everyday Scripting with Ruby, which began as a tutorial for those very testers.

He抯 not a Ruby programmer by trade. He makes most of his money as a consultant in the Agile methodologies. (After getting off the shuttle bus, he was one of the authors of the 揗anifesto for Agile Software Development�.)

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Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails leads you through the steps necessary to build your first application. You抣l get hands-on experience with Facebook technologies such as FBML and FQL, and master messaging and news feeds.

You抣l do more than just study the Facebook API梱ou抣l get practical tips from an experienced Facebook developer. We抣l cover advanced techniques such as AJAX and asynchronous messaging, and you抣l see how to slash development time with facebooker, the leading Ruby library for Facebook Platform development.

Together, we抣l build Karate Poke, a real Facebook Platform application, from configuration to deployment. You抣l get deep into Facebook requests right off the bat. From there, you抣l build the core of Karate Poke and then get a detailed look at the Facebook canvas and social features. We抣l finish by looking at advanced features and tips for handling millions of users.

Developing for the Facebook Platform can seem like a different world at first. Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is your tour guide.

Contents and Extracts

• Introducing the Facebook Platform
• Getting Started with the Facebook Platform
• Creating Your First Application
• Building the Karate Poke Object Model
• Getting Into the Facebook Canvas
• Making it More Social
• Profiles and the Facebook REST API
• Integrating Facebook and Existing Websites
• Scripting with FBJS
• Testing with Facebook
• Scaling and Performance

About the Author

Mike Mangino is the founder of Elevated Rails. He has been building applications for the web since 1995. He has been developing for the Facebook Platform since its launch and has contributed to several of the most popular Facebook applications.

In his spare time, Mike is an avid runner. He has completed several marathons and hopes to eventually qualify for Boston.

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Interest in Ruby has exploded. Developers discovering this elegant, dynamic language quickly learn that Ruby is a powerful alternative to traditional static languages like Java or C++. It runs in most operating environments and can handle virtually any programming task you throw at it. Ruby code is clean and elegant. Best of all, Ruby is dynamic, which means that it’s designed to react at runtime to changes in an application’s environment or requirements.

The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It’s a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading The book concentrates on the language, preparing you for any way you may choose to use Ruby. Whether the topic is simple or tough, the book’s easy-to-follow examples and explanations give you immediate confidence as you build your Ruby programming skills.

The Well-Grounded Rubyist is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the best-selling Ruby for Rails. In this new book, expert author David A. Black moves beyond Rails and presents a broader view of Ruby. It covers Ruby 1.9, and keeps the same sharp focus and clear writing that made Ruby for Rails stand out.

It’s no wonder one reader commented: “The technical depth is just right to not distract beginners, yet detailed enough for more advanced readers.”

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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 excellent introduction to Ruby as the first edition plus updates for the newest version of Ruby, including the addition of the Sinatra and Ramaze web application frameworks and a chapter on GUI development so developers can take advantage of these new trends.

Beginning Ruby starts by explaining the principles behind object-oriented programming and within a few chapters builds toward creating a full Ruby application. By the end of the book, in addition to in-depth knowledge of Ruby, you’ll also have basic understanding of many ancillary technologies such as SQL, XML, web frameworks, and networking.

? 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

How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You’ll learn how to write code that’s readable, expressive, and much more. Ruby Best Practices will help you:

Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby’s code blocks Learn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the fly Discover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and how to design for testability Learn to write faster code by keeping things simple Develop strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressions Understand how and why things can go wrong Reduce cultural barriers by leveraging Ruby’s multilingual capabilities

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Das Rails Kochbuch ist vollgestopft mit genialen L?sungen, um Web-Anwendungen vom Feinsten zu erstellen. Die Rezepte reichen von einfachen, wie beispielsweise Rails-Installation und das Aufsetzen der Entwicklerumgebung, bis hin zu top-aktuellen Entwicklungen wie beispielsweise der Entwicklung von RESTful Web Services. Rails hat die Entwicklung von Web-Anwendungen revolutioniert. Einige der besten in der praktischen Entwicklungsarbeit entstandenen Konzepte und Tricks werden in diesem Buch nun erstmalig ver?ffentlicht. Jedes Rails-Rezept beinhaltet eine durchgetestete L?sung, erg?nzt um eine genaue Erl?uterung, wie und warum diese L?sung funktioniert. Die Rezepte k?nnen leicht auf andere Szenarien und Aufgabenstellungen übertragen werden. Folgende Themen werden u.a. behandelt:

* Modellierung von Daten mit der Active Record Library * Erstellungs von Pr?sentationsschichten mit Action View und RHTML-Templates * Die Abbildung Ihrer Gesch?ftslogik im Action Controller * Testen und Debuggen Ihrer Rails-Anwendungen * Erstellung von interaktiven Web-Anwendungen mit JavaScript und Ajax * Ma?nahmen zur Sicherheit und guten Performance Ihrer Anwendungen * Das Deploying Ihrer Applikation mit Mongrel und Apache * Wie Sie Capistrano zum automatischen Deployment einsetzen * Die Verwendung der zahlreichen Ruby-Plugins

Egal, ob Sie Rails-Newbies oder bereits ein erfahrener Entwickler sind: im Rails Kochbuch werden Sie Wege finden, wie Sie Ihre Web-Anwendungen testen, debuggen und sicherer machen k?nnen. Rails Kochbuch erspart Ihnen Hunderte von Stunden Arbeit, die Sie sinnvoller verwenden k?nnen.

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Addison Wesley | ISBN: 0321483510 | 2006 | CHM | 123 pages | 0.38 MB

Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (Facets of Ruby)
Pragmatic Bookshelf | 2009 | ISBN: 1934356085 | 1000 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Ruby is a fully object-oriented language, much like the classic object-oriented language, Smalltalk. Like Smalltalk, it is dynamically typed (as opposed to Java or C++), but unlike Smalltalk, Ruby features the same conveniences found in modern scripting languages, making Ruby a favorite tool of intelligent, forward-thinking programmers and the basis for the Rails web framework.

This is the reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including all the new and changed methods introduced by Ruby 1.9). It also includes all the new and changed syntax and semantics introduced since Ruby 1.8. Learn about the new parameter passing rules, local variable scoping in blocks, fibers, multinationalization, and the new block declaration syntax, among other exciting new features.

About the Author

Dave Thomas is a cornerstone of the Ruby community, and is personally responsible for many of its innovative directions and initiatives. He and original co-author Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., and remains an active, driving force in the Ruby community.

Dave Thomas and original co-author Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

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Hal Fulton, ?The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition)?
Addison Wesley | ISBN: 0672328844 | 2006 | CHM | 888 pages | 1.78 MB

Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects
Packt Publishing | ISBN: 1847193935 | 2008-04-30 | PDF | 272 pages | 5 Mb

A web mashup is a new type of web application that uses data and services from one or more external sources to build entirely new and different web applications. Web mashups usually mash up data and through other partnership agreements. The external sources that a mashup uses are known as mashup APIs.

This book shows you how to write web mashups using Ruby on Rails— the new web application development framework. The book has seven real-world projects and each project is described in a methodical step-by-step way, showing how you can write a web mashup from the ground up.

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Brian Marick, ?Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You?
Pragmatic Bookshelf | ISBN 0977616614 | January 1, 2007 | PDF | 1.5 Mb | 200 pages

Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can’t finish each day’s task without having to scan through version control system output, looking for the file you want?

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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web application framework ideally suited to building business applications, accelerating and simplifying the creation of database-driven websites. It has been developed on the Ruby platform.

This book is a tutorial for creating a complete website with Ruby on Rails (RoR). It will teach you to develop database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller pattern. It will take you on a joy ride right from installation to a complete dynamic website. All the applications discussed in this book will help you add exciting features to your website. This book will show you how to assemble RoRs features and leverage its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully featured website.

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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 developers. “Ruby on Rails: Up and Running” takes you out for a test drive and shows you just how fast Ruby on Rails can go.

This compact guide teaches you the basics of installing and using both the Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework for the quick development of web applications. “Ruby on Rails: Up and Running” covers just about everything you need – from making a simple database-backed application to adding elaborate Ajaxian features and all the juicy bits in between. While Rails is praised for its simplicity and speed of development, there are still a few steps to master on the way. More advanced material helps you map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders. A section on working with Ajax and REST shows you how to exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic user-centric web pages. The book also explains the essentials of logging to find performance problems and delves into other performance-optimizing techniques.

As new web development frameworks go, Ruby on Rails is the talk of the town. And “Ruby on Rails: Up and Running” can make sure you’re in on the discussion.

Ruby on Rails is the revolutionary online programming tool that makes creating functional e-commerce web sites faster and easier than ever. With the intuitive, straightforward nature of Ruby and the development platform provided by Rails, you can put together full-fledged web applications quickly, even if you’re new to web programming.

You will find a thorough introduction to both Ruby and Rails in this book. You’ll get the easy instructions for acquiring and installing both; understand the nature of conditionals, loops, methods, and blocks; and become familiar with Ruby’s classes and objects. You’ll learn to build Rails applications, connect to databases, perform necessary testing, and put the whole thing together to create real-world applications such as shopping carts and online catalogs–apps you can actually use right away.

What you will learn from this book

* How to install and use Ruby and Rails

* Object-oriented programming with Ruby

* Rails fundamentals and how to create basic online applications

* How to work with HTML controls, use models in Rails applications, and work with sessions

* Details on working with databases and creating, editing, and deleting database records

* Methods for handling cookies and filters and for caching pages

* How to connect Rails with Ajax

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to develop online applications using Ruby and Rails. A basic understanding of programming is helpful; some knowledge of HTML is necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

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The web framework Ruby on Rails for developing database based web applications provides a Model-View-Controller framework. The required web server WEBrick is included with Ruby on Rails. The framework is configured with the MySQL database by default, but may be configured with another database.

The book covers developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Technologies discussed include Ajax, directory services, and web services. A comparison is made with PHP, the most commonly used scripting language for developing web applications.

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Ruby on Rails continues to build up a tremendous head of steam. Fueled by significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in coming years. Each new Rails application showing up on the web adds yet more to the collective wisdom of the Rails development community. Yesterday’s best practices yield to today’s latest and greatest techniques, as the state of the art is continually refined in kitchens all across the Internet. Indeed, these are times of great progress.

-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. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you’ll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.

Newcomers to Ruby will find a Rails-oriented Ruby introduction that’s easy to read and that includes dynamic programming techniques, an exploration of Ruby objects, classes, and data structures, and many neat examples of Ruby and Rails code in action. Ruby for Rails: the Ruby guide for Rails developers!

What’s Inside

# Classes, modules, and objects

# Collection handling and filtering

# String and regular expression manipulation

# Exploration of the Rails source code

# Ruby dynamics

# Many more programming concepts and techniques!

About the Author

A Ruby community leader, David A. Black is a director of Ruby Central, the parent organization of the annual International Ruby Conference (RubyConf) and the International Rails Conference. David is a Ruby core contributor and the creator and maintainer of the Rails-based Ruby Change Request Archive (RCRchive). He lives and works as a consultant in New Jersey.

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites
Apress | 1590598415 | 421 pages | June 22, 2007 | PDF | 6 Mb

Practical Rails Social Networking Sites shows you the complete development cycle of a social networking community web site. The project develops first as a simple content management system, after which author Alan Bradburne progressively adds features in order to build a full Web 2.0–enabled community-based social networking site using Ruby on Rails.

You will learn how to make the best use of the Ruby on Rails framework within a large project and how to implement and adapt features specific to a community. The book offers practical advice and tips for developing and testing, along with guidance on how to take your site live, as well as optimize and maintain it.

The book also explores how to integrate with other community sites such as Flickr and Google Maps, and how to make good use of Rails’ Ajax features. You will also learn how to optimize and adapt your site to work well on mobile browsers.

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Enterprise Integration with Ruby
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (April 1, 2006) | ISBN-10: 0976694069 | PDF | 2,6 Mb | 330 pages

Typical enterprises use dozens, hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of applications, components, services, and databases. Many of them are custom built in-house or by third parties, some are bought, others are based on open source projects, and the origin of a few–usually the most critical ones–is completely unknown.

A lot of applications are very old, some are fairly new, and seemingly no two of them were written using the same tools. They run on heterogeneous operating systems and hardware, use databases and messaging systems from various vendors, and were written in different programming languages.

See how to glue these disparate applications together using popular technologies such as:

— LDAP, Oracle, and MySQL — XML Documents and DTDs — Sockets, HTTP, and REST — XML/RPC, SOAP, and others — …and more.

If you’re on the hook to integrate enterprise-class systems together, the tips and techniques in this book will help.