by Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh
As developers worldwide have adopted the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework, many have fallen victim to common mistakes that reduce code quality, performance, reliability, stability, scalability, and maintainability. Rails AntiPatterns identifies these widespread Rails code and design problems, explains why they're bad and why they happen - and shows exactly what to do instead.The book is organized i...
Price: $15.70 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2010
by Obie Fernandez
Ruby on Rails strips complexity from the development process, enabling professional developers to focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and maintainable code. The Rails 3 Way is the only comprehensive, authoritative guide to delivering production-quality code with Rails 3. Pioneering Rails expert Obie Fernandez and a team of leading experts illuminate the entire Rails 3 API, along ...
Price: $8.58 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2010
C# 2010 All-in-One For Dummies 
by Bill Sempf, Charles Sphar, Stephen R. Davis
C# is a complicated programming language for building .NET-connected software for Microsoft Windows, the Web, and a wide range of devices. The friendly All-in-One For Dummies format is a perfect way to present it. Each minibook is a self-contained package of necessary information, making it easy to find what you're looking for.Upgrades in C# 2010 include the ability to build Windows 7 applications and ...
Price: $7.01 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2010
by David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Zach Dennis, Aslak Hellesoy, Bryan Helmkamp, Dan North
Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) gives you the best of Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, and Acceptance Test Driven Planning techniques, so you can create better software with self-documenting, executable tests that bring users and developers together with a common language.Get the most out of BDD in Ruby with The RSpec Book, written by the lead developer of RSpec, David Chelimsky....
Price: $6.05 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2010
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
by Bruce A. Tate
You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer. But if one per year is good, how about Seven Languages in Seven Weeks? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Whether or not your favorite language is on that list, you'll broaden your perspective of programming by examining these languages side...
Price: $12.86 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2010
Ruby on Rails for Microsoft Developers
by Antonio Cangiano
This definitive guide examines how to take advantage of the new Agile methodologies offered when using Ruby on Rails (RoR). You'll quickly grasp the RoR methodology by focusing on the RoR development from the point of view of the beginner- to intermediate-level Microsoft developer. Plus, you'll get a reliable roadmap for migrating your applications, skill set, and development processes to the newe...
Price: $8.54 | Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2009
by Brian Marick
Programming Cocoa with Ruby brings together two enthusiastic development communities. Ruby programmers will tell you how productive they are with just the right amount of code. Cocoa developers know the importance of a clean, intuitive interface.Now, through Programming Cocoa with Ruby, the joy of Cocoa meets the joy of Ruby....
Price: $4.90 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2009
by Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck
With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What's more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there's an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler's classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout - n...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Addison-Wesley | Release: 2009
by Gregory T Brown
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...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2009
Programming Ruby 1.9, 3rd Edition
by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt
Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox.This book is the only complete reference for Ruby 1.9, the very latest version of Ruby. (If you are still using Ruby 1.8, you'll want to check out the original PickAxe.)...
Price: $4.16 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2009