Ruby Best Practices

Increase Your Productivity - Write Better Code

By Gregory Brown
June 2009
Pages: 328
ISBN 10: 0-596-52300-9 | ISBN 13: 9780596523008

Description

Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive, and much more. It's the perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language.
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How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more.

Ruby Best Practices will help you:

Understand the secret powers unlocked by Ruby's code blocks
Learn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the fly
Discover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and how to design for testability
Learn to write faster code by keeping things simple
Develop strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressions
Understand how and why things can go wrong
Reduce cultural barriers by leveraging Ruby's multilingual capabilities

This book also offers you comprehensive chapters on driving code through tests, designing APIs, and project maintenance. Learn how to make the most of this rich, beautiful language with Ruby Best Practices.

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"RBP is very rich with ideas and perspectives and examples but there are also a lot of simple takeaways that will stick with me as long as I write code in Ruby...You should check it out, read it in your user group or dev team and discuss it. I really think we need more of these type of practical best practices books and blogs and case-studies and discussions and I am glad for the appearance of this book."
-- Dylan Clendenin, Deep Thawtz

"Given my experience and goals, Ruby Best Practices was a perfect read...Not only are Brown’s examples excellent, but they are plentiful. Nearly every new idea he introduces is demonstrated through a case study of real (or plausibly real) code. Working through this book will definitely sharpen your code-reading skills. Beyond simply being clear, Brown’s writing is also fun to read. His enthusiasm for the subject matter is obvious...and leads to a technical book that I’m tempted to call a page-turner. "
-- Ben Orenstein, Codeulate.

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