Fulton H., Arko A. The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming

3rd Edition. — Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015. — 816 p. — ISBN10: 0321714636, ISBN13: 978-0-321-71463-3.Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book.The new edition The Ruby Way illuminates Ruby 2.1 through more than 400 examples arranged by topic. Each example answers the question How do I do this in Ruby? Working along with the author, you are presented with the task description and a discussion of the technical constraints. For each example, they present both a task description and realistic technical constraints. This is followed by a step-by-step presentation of one good solution. Along the way, the author provides detailed commentary and explanations to aid your understanding.Conveniently organized by topic, The Ruby Way, Third Edition makes it easier than ever to find the specific solution you want — and to write better code by reflecting Ruby’s unique philosophy and spirit.Coverage includes:
Ruby 2.1 overview: terminology, philosophy, and basic principles;
Best practices for strings and regular expressions;
Efficiently internationalizing your code;
Performing calculations (including trigonometry, calculus, statistics, and time/date calculations);
Working with Rubyesque objects such as symbols and ranges;
Using arrays, hashes, stacks, queues, trees, graphs, and other data structures;
Efficiently storing data with YAML, JSON, and SQLite3;
Leveraging object-oriented and dynamic features, from multiple constructors to program inspection;
Building GUIs with Shoes 4, Ruby/Tk, Ruby/GTK3, QtRuby, and other toolkits;
Improving thread performance by understanding Ruby’s synchronization methods and avoiding its pitfalls;
Automating system administration with Ruby;
Data formats: JSON, XML, RSS, Atom, RMagick, PDF, and more;
Testing and debugging with RSpec, Minitest, Cucumber, byebug, and pry;
Measuring Ruby program performance;
Packaging and distributing code, and managing dependencies with Bundler;
Network programming: clients, time servers, POP, SMTP, IMAP, Open-URI;
Web applications: HTTP servers, Rails, Sinatra, HTML generation, and more;
Writing distributed Ruby software with drb;
Choosing modern development tools that maximize your productivity.