Ruby Best Practices: Increase Your Productivity - Write Better Code

Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive, and much more. It's the perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language.

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Redis Cookbook: Practical Techniques for Fast Data Manipulation

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.

Each recipe solves a specific problem, and provides an in-depth discussion of how the solution works. You'll discover that Redis, while simple in nature, offers extensive functionality for manipulating and storing data.

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Redis in Action

Redis in Action introduces Redis and the key-value model. You'll quickly dive into real use cases including simple caching, distributed ad targeting, and more. You'll learn how to scale Redis from small jobs to massive datasets and discover how to integrate with traditional RDBMS or other NoSQL stores. Experienced developers will appreciate the in-depth chapters on clustering and internal scripting.

Written for developers familiar with database concepts. No prior exposure to NoSQL database concepts nor to Redis itself is required. Appropriate for systems administrators comfortable with programming.

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Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional 2nd edition

Based on the bestselling 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 this book is for

Beginning programmers, programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language.

Table of Contents

1. Let’s Get It Started: Installing Ruby
2. Programming = Joy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation
3. Ruby’s Building Blocks: Data, Expressions, and Flow Control
4. Developing Your First Ruby Application
5. The Ruby Ecosystem
6. Classes, Objects, and Modules
7. Projects and Libraries
8. Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing
9. Files and Databases
10. Deploying Ruby Applications and Libraries
11. Advanced Ruby Features
12. Tying It Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application
13. Web Application Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, and Ramaze
14. Ruby and the Internet
15. Networking, Sockets, and Daemons
16. GUI-Based Desktop Application Development
17. Useful Ruby Libraries and Gems

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