Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers were there with the definitive reference manual, Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. Now in its second edition, author Dave Thomas has expanded the famous Pickaxe book with over 200 pages of new content, covering all the improved language features of Ruby 1.8 and standard library modules. The Pickaxe contains four major sections:
<ul>
<li>An acclaimed tutorial on using Ruby.</li>
<li>The definitive reference to the language.</li>
<li>Complete documentation on all built-in classes, modules, and methods</li>
<li>Complete descriptions of all 98 standard libraries.</li>
</ul>
 If you enjoyed the First Edition, you'll appreciate the 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. This is the definitive reference manual for Ruby, including a description of all the standard library modules, a complete reference to all built-in classes and modules (including more than 250 significant changes since the First Edition). Coverage of other features has grown tremendously, including details on how to harness the sophisticated capabilities of irb, so you can dynamically examine and experiment with your running code. "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

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Computers & Technology

Dave Thomas

Andy Hunt

Chad Fowler

Web Development & Design

Pragmatic Bookshelf

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs.
All over the world, software teams are using unit testing both to verify their code and as a way of helping them design better code. This book is unique in the way it covers two aspects: showing developers both how to test and helping them determine what to test.
New in the second edition:
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<li>Updated for NUnit 2.4 (.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005)</li>
<li>More assert methods</li>
<li>New String and Collection assertion support</li>
<li>Better support for multiple-platform development</li>
<li>Higher-level setup and teardown fixtures</li>
<li>Whole new chapter on extending NUnit</li>
<li> and more!</li>
</ul>

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition (Pragmatic Starter Kit Series, Vol. 2)

Matt Hargett

Programming

Digital Sound Processing for Music and Multimedia

Ross, Kirk

Taylor&Francis

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) 1st Edition

Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The

Pragmatisches Denken u.Lernen

Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery

DAVID, THOMAS

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