Table of Contents

PART 1 - Foundations. 1 Installing Ruby. 2 A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation. 3 Ruby's Building Blocks: Data, Expressions, and Flow Control. 4 How to Create a Basic Ruby Application. 5 The Ruby Ecosystem and Community. PART 2 - The Core of Ruby. 6 Classes, Objects, and Modules. 7 Projects and Libraries. 8 Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing. 9 Files and Databases. 10 Deploying and Distributing Ruby Applications and Libraries. 11 Advanced Ruby Features. 12 Tying It Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application. PART 3 - Beyond The Basics. 13 Web Application Development with Rails, Merb and Other Frameworks. 14 Ruby and the Internet. 15 Networking, Sockets, and Daemons. 16 GUI / Desktop Application Development. 17 Useful Ruby Libraries and Gems. APPENDIX A Ruby Primer and Recap for Developers. APPENDIX B Ruby Reference. APPENDIX C Useful Resources.

About the Author

Peter Cooper is an experienced Ruby developer, trainer, and publisher who runs Ruby Inside, the most popular blog in the Ruby and Rails worlds, with 18,000 subscribers. He also curates RubyFlow, a popular Ruby community link blog. Over the past few years he has developed, launched, and sold two startups (Feed Digest and Code Snippets), both powered by Ruby and Rails.