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Book: Ruby Developer's Guide, by Neumann, Ortiz, Feldt, and Johnson, published by Syngress.com. Good book if you already have some ruby experience. Good sections on xml-rpc, SOAP, web services, and the available ruby xml implementations.

Ruby Developer's Guide

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Format: Paperback, 720pp.
ISBN: 1928994644
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Pub. Date: January  2002
Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 139,500 

From the Critics (Booknews)

This guide for developers describes how to create applications using the Ruby object-oriented programming language. This is not an introductory text, and it is expected that the reader has at least a basic understanding of Ruby. A sampling of topics includes using GUI toolkits; programming with Ruby's database-independent- interface; and connecting two or more applications across a network using Distributed Ruby (Drb). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents

1. Booting Ruby
   • Overview
   • Installing
   • IDEs and Editors
   • Additional Tools
   • A Short Syntax Style Guide
   • Dangerous Ruby
   • Comparing
   • Convincing Management
2. GUI Toolkits for Ruby
   • Using Tk
   • Using GTK++
   • Using FOX
   • SWin / VRuby Extensions
   • Other GUI toolkits
3. Accessing Databases with Ruby
   • Ruby / DBI
   • Ruby / ODBC
   • LDAP
   • Other storage solutions
4. XML and Ruby
   • Why XML?
   • XML Parser Architectures and APIs
   • Parsing and Creating XML in Ruby
     • Using XMLParser
     • Using NQXML
     • Using REXML
   • XSLT
5. Web Services and Distributed Ruby
   • XML-RPC
   • SOAP
   • Distributed Ruby (DRb)
     • Rinda
6. WWW and Networking with Ruby
   • Connecting to the web
   • Using Ruby on the Web
   • An online shopping application
   • mod_ruby and eruby
   • IOWA
7. Miscellaneous Libraries and Tools
   • Graphics programming
   • Mathematical programming
   • C/S data structures
   • random numbers, genetic algorithms, neural nets
   • Ruby and Windows
   • OOP-related tools
     • EachDelegator
     • Preserved, Forwardable, and Finalize modules
   • Text processing, Date, and Calendar tools
   • language bindings
8. Profiling and Performance Tuning
   • analysis of complexity of algorithms
   • Improving performance by profiling
   • Comparing speed of Ruby constructs
   • Further performance enhancements
9. Parser Generators
   • Creating a parsing library
   • Rockit
   • Racc
10. Extending and Embedding Ruby
    • Writing C/C++ extensions
      • An example: K-D trees
    • Using SWIG
    • Embedding Ruby
    • mkmf

-- DaleBrayden - 19 Sep 2002