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The dRuby Book: Distributed and Parallel Computing with Ruby

mrblue — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:31:56 +0000

Learn from legendary Japanese Ruby hacker Masatoshi Seki in this first English-language book on his own Distributed Ruby library. You’ll find out about distributed computing, advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, and the philosophy of the Ruby way—straight from the source.

dRuby has been part of the Ruby standard library for

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Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition, 2nd Edition

mrblue — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:11:55 +0000

Written for novice to intermediate Rails developers, Rails Recipes: Rails 3 Edition is packed with solutions to 70 of the most vexing problems you’re likely to face on the job. From building custom forms and powering pages with JQuery to integrating with legacy databases, it’s all here. Each recipe has

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The Rails View: Creating a Beautiful and Maintainable User Experience

mrblue — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:10:05 +0000

Working in the View layer requires a breadth of knowledge and attention to detail unlike anywhere else in Rails. One wrong move can result in brittle, complex views that stop future development in its tracks. This book will help you break free from tangles of logic and markup in your

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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your Computer, Simplify Your Life

mrblue — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:50:43 +0000

As Ruby pro David Copeland explains, writing a command-line application that is self-documenting, robust, adaptable and forever useful is easier than you might think. Ruby is particularly suited to this task, since it combines high-level abstractions with “close to the metal” system interaction wrapped up in a concise, readable syntax.

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The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developer

mrblue — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:20:47 +0000

Your customers want rock-solid, bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they can’t always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. The Cucumber Book dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; it’s

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Pragmatic Guide to Sass

mrblue — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:13:59 +0000

Written by Sass creator Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin, Pragmatic Guide to Sass shows you how to you to improve your CSS, from the basics to advanced topics, from first installation to sprucing up your buttons. You’ll see how to code the right way in Sass thanks to short,

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Sinatra: Up and Running

mrblue — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:52:38 +0000

Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and domain-specific language used by GitHub, LinkedIn, Engine Yard, and other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to building both standalone and modular web applications.

Sinatra serves as a

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RailsSpace: Building a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails

mrblue — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:51:41 +0000

Ruby on Rails is fast displacing PHP, ASP, and J2EE as the development framework of choice for discriminating programmers, thanks to its elegant design and emphasis on practical results. RailsSpace teaches you to build large-scale projects with Rails by developing a real-world application: a social networking website like MySpace, Facebook,

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Advanced Rails

mrblue — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:45:50 +0000

Ready to go to the next level with Rails? From examining the parts of Ruby that make this framework possible to deploying large Rails applications, Advanced Rails offers you an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with databases, security, performance, web services and much more.

Chapters in this book help

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Rails 3 in Action

mrblue — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:11:21 +0000

Rails 3 is a full stack, open source web framework powered by Ruby
and this book is an introduction to it. Whether you’re just starting or
you have a few cycles under your belt, you’ll appreciate the book’s
guru’s-eye-view of idiomatic Rails programming.

You’ll master
Rails 3.1 by developing a

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