Ruby Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach - Softcover

Mandal, Malay

 
9781484224687: Ruby Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 148422468X ISBN 13: 9781484224687
Publisher: Apress, 2016

Synopsis

Solve your Ruby programming problems that occur during your day-to-day scripting work. This book contains a varied selection of practical and interesting code recipes designed to make your coding life easier. Ruby Recipes includes solutions to problems in working with data, handling exceptions, writing blocks, and using regular expressions.

This book provides ready scripts for both simple complex scripting tasks, which you can use readily or with only minor modifications. These scripts cover areas such as collections, classes and structures, functional programming, and log handling. With these handy recipes at your fingertips, you will be able to solve those niggling problems and become even more efficient.



What You Will Learn 
  • Install and run Ruby
  • Read and write data
  • Write functions
  • Work with arrays, ranges, hashes, and iterators
  • Handle dates and time
  • Process XML as text
  • Master OOP concepts such as classes, objects, subclassing, and inheritance
  • Connect to databases


Who This Book Is For

Programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language.

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About the Author

A Master of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) from IISc, Bangalore ('94), Malay is working in IT for the last 22 or so years. He worked across multiple geographical locations (India, Japan, Singapore, UK ..), across multiple technology stack and for quite a few well known organisations (Telstra, JP Morgan, Citigroup etc.). He quite often actively learns new things, and his creation (other than books) include Apps in Google Play, and some small wooden pieces of furniture at home.

From the Back Cover

Solve your Ruby programming problems that occur during your day-to-day scripting work. This book contains a varied selection of practical and interesting code recipes designed to make your coding life easier. Ruby Recipes includes solutions to problems in working with data, handling exceptions, writing blocks, and using regular expressions.

This book provides ready scripts for both simple complex scripting tasks, which you can use readily or with only minor modifications. These scripts cover areas such as collections, classes and structures, functional programming, and log handling. With these handy recipes at your fingertips, you will be able to solve those niggling problems and become even more efficient.

You will:

  • Install and run Ruby
  • Read and write data
  • Write functions
  • Work with arrays, ranges, hashes, and iterators
  • Handle dates and time
  • Process XML as text
  • Master OOP concepts such as classes, objects, subclassing, and inheritance
  • Connect to databases

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Apress
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
148422468X
ISBN 13 
9781484224687
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
254