- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Driving Code Through Tests
- 2. Designing Beautiful APIs
- 3. Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit
- 4. Text Processing and File Management
- 5. Functional Programming Techniques
- 6. When Things Go Wrong
- 7. Reducing Cultural Barriers
- 8. Skillful Project Maintenance
- A. Writing Backward-Compatible Code
- B. Leveraging Ruby’s Standard Library
- Why Do We Need a Standard Library?
- Pretty-Printer for Ruby Objects (pp)
- Working with HTTP and FTP (open-uri)
- Working with Dates and Times (date)
- Lexical Parsing with Regular Expressions (strscan)
- Cryptographic Hash Functions (digest)
- Mathematical Ruby Scripts (mathn)
- Working with Tabular Data (csv)
- Transactional Filesystem-Based Data Storage (pstore)
- Human-Readable Data Serialization (json)
- Embedded Ruby for Code Generation (erb)
- Conclusions
- C. Ruby Worst Practices
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
About the Author
Gregory T. Brown is a New Haven, CT based Rubyist who spends most of his time on free software projects in Ruby. His main projects are Prawn and Ruport, and he is also the author of the upcoming book Ruby Best Practices. He also is in possession of a small bamboo plant that seems to be invincible, and he is quite proud of this accomplishment.
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