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Practical Ruby Gems David Berube

Practical Ruby Gems By David Berube

Practical Ruby Gems by David Berube

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Summary

This book is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gems. It details 34 of the best and most useful Gems, including ones to speed up web applications, process credit card payments, produce PDF documents, read and update RSS feeds, and acquire real-time shipping prices from FedEx and UPS.

Practical Ruby Gems Summary

Practical Ruby Gems by David Berube

This book is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gems. Coverage provides an enormous code library that will help developers improve their projects. It details 34 of the best and most useful Gems, including ones to speed up web applications, process credit card payments, produce PDF documents, read and update RSS feeds, and acquire real-time shipping prices from FedEx and UPS. Each of these also comes complete with actual use cases and code examples that readers can immediately use in their own projects. In addition, the book describes how readers can package and distribute their own Ruby Gems.

About David Berube

David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal. Prior to this, he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic. His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com, a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot.com on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow's BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby. David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He's also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as MySQL and You and Making Money with Open Source Software. He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.

Table of Contents

  1. What Is RubyGems?
  2. Installing RubyGems
  3. Using RubyGems in Your Code
  4. Managing Installed Gem Versions
  5. Data Access with the ActiveRecord Gem
  6. Easy Text Markup with the BlueCloth Gem
  7. Creating Web Applications with Camping
  8. Creating Command-Line Utilities with cmdparse
  9. HTML Templating with erubis
  10. Parsing Feeds with feedtools
  11. Creating Graphical User Interfaces with fxruby
  12. Retrieving Stock Quotes with YahooFinance
  13. Parsing HTML with hpricot
  14. Writing HTML as Ruby with Markaby
  15. Parsing CSV with fastercsv
  16. Multiple Dispatch with multi
  17. Serving Web Applications with mongrel
  18. Transferring Files Securely with net-sftp
  19. Executing Commands on Remote Servers with net-ssh
  20. Validating Credit Cards with creditcard
  21. Writing PDFs with pdf-writer
  22. Handling Recurring Events with runt
  23. Building Websites with Rails
  24. Automating Development Tasks with rake
  25. Manipulating Images with RMagick
  26. Speeding Up Web Applications with memcache-client
  27. Managing Zip Archives with rubyzip
  28. Speeding Up Function Calls with memoize
  29. Tagging MP3 Files with id3lib-ruby
  30. Shortening URLs with shorturl
  31. Creating Standalone Ruby Applications with rubyscript2exe
  32. Cleaning Dirty HTML with tidy
  33. Parsing XML with xml-simple
  34. Creating Our Own Gems
  35. Distributing Gems

Additional information

GOR004961228
9781590598115
1590598113
Practical Ruby Gems by David Berube
David Berube
Used - Very Good
Paperback
APress
20070416
271
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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