Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2 
by David B. Copeland
Speak directly to your system. With its simple commands, flags, and parameters, a well-formed command-line application is the quickest way to automate a backup, a build, or a deployment and simplify your life. With this book, you'll learn specific ways to write command-line applications that are easy to use, deploy, and maintain, using a set of clear best practices and the Ruby programming language. Th...
Price: $30.00 | Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers | Release: 2013
by Darren Jones
This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Sinatra, a framework that makes web development with Ruby extremely simple. It's not intended to be a completely comprehensive guide to the framework or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, but will quickly get you up to speed with Sinatra and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.The book is built around...
Price: $18.87 | Publisher: SitePoint | Release: 2013
by Andy Hawthorne
Jump Start Rails provides you with a fun and yet practical introduction to Rails, an incredibly popular framework that makes it possible to quickly develop incredibly powerful web applications with Ruby. This short book covers Rails 4, the latest version of the framework, and while it's not intended to be a completely comprehensive Rails guide or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, it will quickly get you up to...
Price: $22.83 | Publisher: SitePoint | Release: 2013
Beginning Groovy, Grails and Griffon
by Vishal Layka, Christopher M. Judd, Joseph Faisal Nusairat, Jim Shingler
Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of today's most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Java developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Grails, an open source framework that supercharges productivi...
Price: $28.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Beginning Rails 4, 3rd Edition
by Adam Gamble, Cloves Carneiro Jr., Rida Al Barazi
Beginning Rails 4 is a book that will guide you from never having programmed with Ruby, to having a Rails application built and deployed to the web. You'll learn how to combine all the components of Rails to develop your own web applications. You will use test driven development to make sure your application works exactly like you expect.You will learn how to use Git for source control and best practic...
Price: $49.36 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Daniel Hinojosa
If you build your Scala application through Test-Driven Development, you'll quickly see the advantages of testing before you write production code. This hands-on book shows you how to create tests with ScalaTest and the Specs2 - two of the best testing frameworks available - and how to run your tests in the Simple Build Tool (SBT) designed specifically for Scala projects.By building a sample digital ju...
Price: $6.45 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Tom Stuart
Finally, you can learn computation theory and programming language design in an engaging, practical way. Understanding Computation explains theoretical computer science in a context you'll recognize, helping you appreciate why these ideas matter and how they can inform your day-to-day programming.Rather than use mathematical notation or an unfamiliar academic programming language like Haskell or Lisp, ...
Price: $9.44 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
JavaScript Testing with Jasmine
by Evan Hahn
Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. Learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.Throughout the book, author Evan Hahn focuses primarily on methods for te...
Price: $9.22 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby
The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that don't include many of the architecture's benefits. With this practical guide, you'll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools de...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Instant RSpec Test-Driven Development How-to
by Charles Feduke
RSpec is a behaviour driven development framework for Ruby programmers. It comes integrated with its own mocking framework based on Jmock. This book introduces you to RSpec helping you to write idiomatic specifications for Ruby code in a test first approach.Instant RSpec Test-Driven Development How-to is filled with examples of actual code accompanied by explanations and covers general Ruby, Rails, and RSpe...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013