Ruby Way, The: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

by Hal Fulton, André Arko

For more than a decade, Ruby developers have turned to The Ruby Way for reliable “how-to” guidance on effective Ruby programming. Now, Hal Fulton and André Arko have thoroughly updated this classic guide to cover new language enhancements and developers’ experiences through Ruby 2.1. The new edition illuminates Ruby 2.1 through 400+ examples, each answering the “How do I do this in Ruby?” For each example, they present both a task description and realistic technical constraints. Next, they walk step-by-step through presenting one good solution, offering detailed explanations to promote deeper understanding. Conveniently organized by topic, The Ruby Way, Third Edition makes it easier than ever to find the specific solution you want―and to write better code by reflecting Ruby’s unique philosophy and spirit. Coverage includes All source code for this book may be downloaded at www.rubyhacker.com. informit.com/aw informit.com/ruby rubyhacker.com/therubyway therubyway.io

Genres: Programming, Technology, Nonfiction, Software, Coding, Computer Science, Computers

816 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Hal Fulton is a software developer in real life; he has two degrees in computer science and is the author of "The Ruby Way". His passions are reading, writing, music, art, and theatre. He lives in Austin, Texas, in a condo located directly above the center of the Earth. His hobbies include live music and passing counterfeit bills to tourists. His short stories have been rejected by some of the finest magazines in the country.

Reviews

[Marshall]

A mediocre, outdated, verbose book about the Ruby programming language. In 900 pages, this book covers anything any everything Ruby-related, going into (often excrutiating) detail about even the most arcane Ruby libraries. The code samples in this book are pretty bad examples of idiomatic, clean Ruby code. For example, he has a consistent habit of using rescue clauses with no exception names, a terrible practice which commonly leads to false-positives. Even syntax errors will be ignored! The explanations are pretty bad too. This book even confused me about concepts I'd already understood. This book may work as an okay cookbook, but you'd be better off just reading the Ruby Cookbook. It can also be used to discover some libraries you may have never heard of. But by all means, do NOT try to read this all the way through or, God forbid, use it to actually learn Ruby,

[Kiril Kirilov]

I was expecting to get laid. So I decided to clean my room. Under all the filth I found something. An artefact from times long gone. This book. I started it at least two years ago, and never finished it. ‘I can’t leave it that way, I will read it right away’. And now, I’ve done it. Yay.

The moral of this: Do not read this book if you want to get laid.

[Avdi]

Bar none, the most essential book on the established Rubyist's bookshelf.

[Michael Paulini]

On one hand a bit outdated and verbose, on the other hand it explains common solutions to the usual task very well. A bit like the perl cookbook with better writing.

[Ylan]

Probably one of the most well-known books among rubyists, "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton with André Arko, has now been updated and released in its third edition. The first part of the book is dedicated to the language itself and covers syntax, semantics, some comparison to other languages and specific issues, like garbage collection, that developers are well served to know when writing ruby.

The majority of the book is divided into sections that deal with specific task that a developer may encounter. From basics like working with String, numerical calculations and Enumerable collections to more advanced techniques like Threads and Concurrency, Metaprogramming, Network Programming and Distributed Ruby. Each chapter has plenty of code examples and thorough explanations.

I expect my copy to get plenty of used as my programming takes me to unknown or forgotten parts of ruby.

[Jesse]

Not a particularly useful reference or tutorial. Fulton concentrates on canned "recipes" for solving specific problems; really all you can do is try to generalize from these approaches. His choices of problems to solve seem rather questionable (finding Easter, for instance) and he doesn't spend much time talking about best practices in Ruby, so it's ultimately just a bunch of scripts that won't be relevant to most people.

[Nick Carter]

While this is packed to the brim with sage advice, it could use some reorg.

That being said, it *is* a cookbook-style book, which I don't normally enjoy so much as I appreciate as quick reference.

Wish I had as ebook!

[Javan]

good reference

[Jake]

Good nuts and bolts view of Ruby (a programming language) with lots of examples. Good for Ruby programmers looking to become advanced Ruby programmers.

[Dan]

Ruby is a great language, but finding a good Ruby book is tricky. Hopefully this is the one that will make it all make sense . . .

[Kenneth Bowen]

A great, if not slightly out of date, guide to writing idiomatic ruby.

I enjoyed the author's conversational style.

[Daniel Tinivella]

is a great explanation for planning and management in rubyonrails drivers of all kinds, for example controller model depot ....class and hashes.

[Artur Sabirov]

Очень подробная книга по рельсам. Дало повод поковыряться в недрах самого фреймворка. Читал правда 4ю редакцию.

[Joel]

This was the book that made me get ruby. I had read a couple of books before but this really got the concepts through to me.

[Robert Postill]

It's an interesting almanac of tips for programming ruby. I doubt you'd read it cover-to-cover but still handy.

[Lisa]

Looooong

[Steven]

Good for the Ruby programmer who wants to improve their programming skills by directed learning. Not such a good book for the casual Rails developer.

[Naum]

An update to my favorite book on the Ruby programming language.

Pleasantly surprised that it was suitably formatted for Kindle reading (most all programming books get this wrong).

[Aung Myat]

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