David Berube

Practical Ruby Gems (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781430201939
• Artikelnr.: 37343938

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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