Facets of Ruby

An award-winning collection of Ruby books

	Advanced Rails Recipes: 84 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps by Mike Clark With the help of a community of Rails chefs in the kitchen, here are 84 new ways to kick your Rails apps up a notch. Advanced Rails Recipes is a collection of practical recipes for spicing up your web application without a lot of prep and cleanup. You’ll learn how the pros have solved the tough problems using the most up-to-date Rails 2 techniques so you can deliver your stunning web app quicker and easier. Watch Mike Clark run through some of the highlights of the book in an exclusive video (33Mb, Quicktime)
	Agile Web Development with Rails: Second Edition by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, and Andreas Schwarz This is the second edition of Agile Web Development with Rails. It covers Rails 1.2. The Rails team recently released Rails 2. Some of the changes they made break Rails 1.2 applications, so we’re busy working on a brand new edition of this book. You can find details over here. However, it will be a while before the paper version of the new edition is ready. In the meantime, and while stocks last, you can still buy the paper version of this second edition book at a 50% discount. (If you’re looking for code or errata for the first edition of this book, you’ll find them here.)
	Best of Ruby Quiz by James Edward Gray II Sharpen your Ruby programming skills with twenty-five challenging problems from Ruby Quiz. Read the problems, work out a solution, and compare your solution with others. This book is a collection of highlights from the first year of Ruby Quiz challenges. Inside, you will find expanded content, all new solutions, and more in depth discussions of Ruby Quiz problems and solutions. This is the book for anyone who really wants to improve their Ruby skills.
	Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide by Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, and Clinton Begin Until now, the information you needed to deploy a Ruby on Rails application in a production environment has been fragmented and contradictory. This book changes all of that by providing consistent, levelheaded advice you can trust. You’ll get the inside angle from those that have built, deployed, and maintained some of the largest Rails apps in production, anywhere.
	Enterprise Integration with Ruby by Maik Schmidt Learn how the power and elegance of Ruby can make it easier to get enterprise-level applications to work together. See how Ruby can be used as the glue to combine applications in new ways, extending their lives and increasing their (and your) value to your company.
	Everyday Scripting with Ruby: for Teams, Testers, and You by Brian Marick Are you a tester who spends more time manually creating complex test data than using it? A business analyst who seemingly went to college all those years so you can spend your days copying data from reports into spreadsheets? A programmer who can’t finish each day’s task without having to scan through version control system output, looking for the file you want? If so, you’re wasting that computer on your desk. Offload the drudgery to where it belongs, and free yourself to do what you should be doing: thinking. All you need is a scripting language (free!), this book (cheap!), and the dedication to work through the examples and exercises.
	From Java To Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know by Bruce Tate You want your development team to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate’s From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that’ll help persuade managers and executives who’ve seen it all. See when and where the switch makes sense, and see how to make it.
	Learn to Program by Chris Pine Maybe you’ve always wanted to learn how to program computers, but couldn’t find a book that made sense. Maybe you’re already a programmer, and you’d like to fill in the gaps or help your spouse or partner see what you do. Or, perhaps you’d like to get your child started. This is the book for you. Using Ruby, you’ll learn to program with no previous experience, create your own utilities and applications, take control of your computer, and build a foundation to understand large, professional applications
	Payment Processing with Paypal and Ruby by Joe Fair Building a top-notch web site requires a lot of technical expertise. Keeping track of changing requirements and new technologies, not to mention the competition, can keep you on your toes. Processing payments is a small, but important part of a successful site.
	Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt The Pickaxe book, named for the tool on the cover, is the definitive reference to Ruby, a highly-regarded, fully object-oriented programming language. This Second Edition has more than 200 pages of new content, and substantial enhancements to the original, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. Third Edition is Now Available Ruby is in a period of transition. Ruby 1.8 is the current release for production use. A new version, Ruby 1.9, is available for those who like to live on the leading edge. Ruby 1.9 is an incremental change, but does include some incompatibilities with 1.8. If you want a paper book now, or if you prefer reading about the stable version of Ruby, then the book on this page is for you. If instead you want to read about the new features in 1.9, then check out the Third Edition.
	Rails for Java Developers by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland Many Java developers are now looking at Ruby, and the Ruby on Rails web framework. If you are one of them, this book is your guide. Written by experienced developers who love both Java and Ruby, this book will show you, via detailed comparisons and commentary, how to translate your hard-earned Java knowledge and skills into the world of Ruby and Rails.
	Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler You’ve read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful Rails application. But ingredients don’t just turn themselves into a meal. Chad Fowler’s Rails Recipes is a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the the most cutting edge Rails techniques, mixing the ingredients to create world-class web applications. Learn how to do it, and how to do it right.
	Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby by Caleb Tennis See how to use the powerful Qt3 library to create cross-platform GUI applications for Linux and OS X in Ruby.