Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

-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

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

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.

Best of Ruby Quiz

Best of Ruby Quiz Volume One (Pragmatic Programmers)
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1 edition (March 1, 2006) | ISBN-10: 0976694077 | PDF | 1,4 Mb | 298 pages

Solve these twenty-five popular programming puzzles, and sharpen your programming skills as you craft solutions.

You’ll find interesting and challenging programming puzzles including:

— 800 Numbers — Crosswords — Cryptograms — Knight’s Tour — Paper, Rock, Scissors — Tic-Tac-Toe — Texas Hold-Em — …and more.

Learning to program can be quite a challenge. Classes and books can get you so far, but at some point you have to sit down and start playing with some code. Only by reading and writing real code, with real problems, can you learn.

The Ruby Quiz was built to fill exactly this need for Ruby programmers. Challenges, solutions, and discussions combine to make Ruby Quiz a powerful way to learn Ruby tricks. See how algorithms translate to Ruby code, get exposure to Ruby’s libraries, and learn how other programmers use Ruby to solve problems quickly and efficiently.

Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails

Business intelligence and real–time reporting mechanisms play a major role in any of today’s forward–looking business plans. With many of these solutions being moved to the Web, the popular Rails framework and its underlying Ruby language are playing a major role alongside web services in building the reporting solutions of tomorrow.

Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails is the first book to comprehensively introduce this popular framework, guiding readers through a wide–ranging array of features. Note this isn’t a staid guide to generating traditional reports, but rather it shows you how the Ruby language and Rails framework can create truly compelling reporting services by plugging into popular third-party applications and services such as Google AdWords, UPS.com, iTunes, and SalesForce.com.

What you’ll learn

Create reporting solutions for both the Web and the desktop.

Integrate with powerful third–party retail solutions such as eBay, and Amazon.com in order to monitor your sales campaigns in real–time.

Build an invoice reporting system using Rails and PayPal.

Monitor your sales performance by taking advantage of SugarCRM’s web service offerings.

Who is this book for?

Ruby and Rails developers seeking to create compelling business intelligence and reporting solutions using a wide variety of applications and services.

About the Apress Practical Series

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to go on your IT career empowerment path.

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