Now in its Second Edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"(Pragmatic Bookshelf), the famous pickaxe book, with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the new and improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections:
-An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby -The definitive reference to the language -Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods -Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the new and expanded content, including: enhanced coverage of installation, packaging, documenting Ruby source code, threading and synchronization, and enhancing Ruby's capabilities using C-language extensions. Programming for the world-wide web is easy in Ruby, with new chapters on XML/RPC, SOAP, distributed Ruby, templating systems and other web services. There's even a new chapter on unit testing. "Ruby is a wonderfully powerful and useful language, and whenever I'm working with it this book is at my side." --Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks To order your copy or for more information, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0974514055/ or call 1-800-998-9938 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programming Ruby The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, Second Edition Dave Thomas with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0-9745140-5-5, 862 pages, $44.95 US, $65.95 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0974514055/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, or add subscriptions to other topics, go to http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/home For non-automated human help email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------
