Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts

Steve Pugh

ISBN 10: 1593271824 / ISBN 13: 9781593271824

Published by No Starch Press, Incorporated, 2008

About this Item

Print on Demand pp. xxiv + 189 Illus.

Seller Inventory # 6637387

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
• Publisher: No Starch Press, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593271824
• ISBN 13: 9781593271824
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts is a compendium of scripts that will make your life easier by saving you time and solving problems. If you find yourself wasting effort and time on a task a trained monkey could do, it's time for Ruby to come to the rescue.

Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts provides carefully selected Ruby scripts that are immediately useful. Learn how to streamline administrative tasks like renaming files, disabling processes, and changing permissions. After you get your feet wet creating basic scripts, author Steve Pugh will show you how to create powerful Web crawlers, security scripts, full-fledged libraries and applications, and much more. With each script you'll get the raw code followed by an explanation of how it really works, as well as instructions for how to run the script and suggestions for customizing it. Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts will save you from the tedium of repetitive tasks and give you back the time it would take to write scripts from scratch.

About the Author

Steve Pugh has been a programmer for over a decade. He has worked as a software analyst for a banking software company, run a large-scale network operations center (overseeing 7,000 users and 130 network technicians), and is currently doing security research for the US government. Much of this book was written while Pugh was working for the US government in northern Iraq.