Practical Ruby Projects Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer [Paperback]

Revitalized by Ruby on Rails, the Ruby language continues to grow in popularity. Books like this are necessary to fill the demand. Here is a classic of its kind; required reading for Ruby programmers who have already mastered the basics and want to learn higher level techniques. Practical Ruby Projects presents nine diverse projects that will teach new and innovative techniques in a learn-by-example fashion. They include a turn-based adventure game and a generative music creator. While there are many other Ruby titles, none of them take this unique project-based approach to teaching.

Practical Ruby Projects presents nine diverse projects that will teach innovative techniques in a learn-by-example fashion. They include a turn-based adventure game and a generative music creator. While there are many other Ruby titles, none of them take this unique approach to teaching.

This book is titled Practical Ruby Projects. And let me start by saying that the projects are practical. But they might not be quite what youre used to. Flip through the book. You wont find any references to enterprise deployment. Not a word about business logic. In fact, hard as it is to believe, theres no web programming! But if you exclude those things, whats left? Why, everything else, of course! Each chapter in this book turns Ruby loose on a new interesting problem or project. They range from creative endeavors to investigative simulations to the exploration of computer programming languages themselves. Ruby is a programming language, but its also a tool to create, understand, and entertain. This book is all about Ruby. Why Ruby? Since this book was written with the assumption that you have a basic knowledge of Ruby, odds are you already know about Rubys strengths. The Language You know that Rubys blocks are a joy to use. You know how Rubys programmer-oriented core API can make programming feel effortless. Despite what the popular press so- times says, RlsÂ