Ruby astounds developers with its ability to make programming fun again. It frees programmers to concentrate on programming objectives, and creates fewer obstacles than other languages by flowing ideas directly into the code. Although Ruby is experiencing dramatic growth, there are very few educational resources available for aspiring developers. Written by a team of Ruby gurus, Ruby Developer's Guide is the most comprehensive book available for serious Ruby developers.

Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1 Booting Ruby
Chapter 2 GUI Toolkits for Ruby
Chapter 3 Accessing Databases with Ruby
Chapter 4 XML and Ruby
Chapter 5 Web Services and Distributed Ruby
Chapter 6 WWW and Networking with Ruby
Chapter 7 Miscellaneous Libraries and Tools
Chapter 8 Profiling and Performance Tuning
Chapter 9 Parser Generators
Chatper 10 Extending and Embedding Ruby

Index