Push Ruby to its limits. Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to this popular language, with hundreds of solutions to real-world problems. Each detailed recipe provides code that you can use in your own projects right away, as well as a discussion on why the solution works. Updated to include Ruby 1.9 and 2.0, the second edition includes recipes for the Rails framework and other projects involving Ruby. From data structures and algorithms to integration with cutting-edge technologies, Ruby Cookbook covers a wide range of programming topics for beginners and advanced Rubyists alike.

About the Author
Lucas Carlson founded AppFog, a PaaS company that leveraged Cloud Foundry and was acquired by CenturyLink. Lucas has been a professional developer for 20 years and specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Lucas has authored Programming for PaaS and the Ruby Cookbook and has written half a dozen libraries in various programming languages and contributed to many others, including Rails and RedCloth. Leonard Richardson (http://www.crummy.com/) is the author of the Ruby Cookbook (O'Reilly) and of several open source libraries, including Beautiful Soup. A California native, he currently lives in New York.


Book Information
ISBN 9781449373719
Author Lucas Carlson
Format Paperback
Page Count 992
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media