Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous: Write Programs, Publish Gems, and Develop Sinatra Web Apps with Ruby

Length: 859 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2022-06-17
ISBN-10: B09WMLX9DG
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don’t, to Create Ruby Programs, Gems, and Web Apps

Programmers love Ruby for its elegance, power, and flexibility: that’s why it was chosen for the Ruby on Rails framework that launched websites from Shopify to Coinbase. You’ll love Ruby too, but you don’t need to learn “everything” about it, just how to use it efficiently to solve real problems. In Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous, renowned instructor Michael Hartl teaches the concepts, skills, and approaches you need to be professionally productive in both general-purpose programming and beginning web app development.

Even if you’re new to programming, Hartl helps you quickly build technical sophistication and master the lore you need to succeed. You’ll gain a solid understanding of object-oriented and functional programming, develop and publish a self-contained Ruby package (a gem), and use your gem to build and deploy a dynamic web app with the Sinatra framework. Focused exercises help you internalize what matters, without wasting time on details pros don’t care about. Soon, it’ll be like you were born knowing this stuff–and you’ll be suddenly, seriously dangerous.

Learn enough about . . .

Writing real code quickly using interactive Ruby (irb)
Working with native Ruby objects and creating your own
Using functional techniques to write more concise and modular code
Creating tests and improving code with test-driven development (TDD)
Developing and publishing self-contained Ruby packages (gems)
Writing nontrivial shell scripts to leverage Ruby’s power at the command line
Developing and deploying a web app with routes, layouts, embedded Ruby, and forms
Mastering modern development skills you can use with any language

Michael Hartl’s Learn Enough Series includes books and video courses that focus on the most important parts of each subject, so you don’t have to learn everything to get started–you just have to learn enough to be dangerous and solve technical problems yourself.

Cover Page
About This eBook
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
About the Author
Chapter 1. Hello, World!
    1.1 Introduction to Ruby
    1.2 Ruby in a REPL
    1.3 Ruby in a File
    1.4 Ruby in a Shell Script
    1.5 Ruby in a Web Browser
Chapter 2. Strings
    2.1 String Basics
    2.2 Concatenation and Interpolation
    2.3 Printing
    2.4 Attributes, Booleans, and Control Flow
    2.5 Methods
    2.6 String Iteration
Chapter 3. Arrays
    3.1 Splitting
    3.2 Array Access
    3.3 Array Slicing
    3.4 More Array Methods
    3.5 Array Iteration
Chapter 4. Other Native Objects
    4.1 Math
    4.2 Time
    4.3 Regular Expressions
    4.4 Hashes
    4.5 Application: Unique Words
Chapter 5. Functions and Blocks
    5.1 Function Definitions
    5.2 Functions in a File
    5.3 Method Chaining
    5.4 Blocks
Chapter 6. Functional Programming
    6.1 Map
    6.2 Select
    6.3 Reduce
Chapter 7. Objects and Classes
    7.1 Defining Classes
    7.2 Inheritance
    7.3 Derived Classes
    7.4 Modifying Native Objects
    7.5 Modules
Chapter 8. Testing and Test-Driven Development
    8.1 Testing and Ruby Gem Setup
    8.2 Initial Test Coverage
    8.3 Red
    8.4 Green
    8.5 Refactor
Chapter 9. Shell Scripts
    9.1 Reading from Files
    9.2 Reading from URLs
    9.3 DOM Manipulation at the Command Line
Chapter 10. A Live Web Application
    10.1 Setup
    10.2 Site Pages
    10.3 Layouts
    10.4 Embedded Ruby
    10.5 Palindrome Detector
    10.6 Conclusion
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