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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide by David Thomas; Chad Fowler; Andrew Hunt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide about?
Synopsis: Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide . Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections: An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby. The definitive reference to the language. Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries. If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the expanded content, including enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the World Wide Web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating
Who reads Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Thomas; Chad Fowler; Andrew Hunt
- Publisher
- Pragmatic Bookshelf
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (1,391 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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