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Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You (Facets of Ruby Series) by Brian Marick

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  • Pub. Date: December 2006
  • 301pp
  • Sales Rank: 232,289

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    • Pub. Date: December 2006
    • Publisher: Pragmatic Programmers, LLC, The
    • Format: Paperback, 301pp
    • Sales Rank: 232,289

    Synopsis

    Readers will be introduced to the Ruby scripting language and the overall craft of scripting in this reference. Common typos, finished scripts ready to use and deploy for testing and other common rote tasks are included.

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    Readers will be introduced to the Ruby scripting language and the overall craft of scripting in this reference. Common typos, finished scripts ready to use and deploy for testing and other common rote tasks are included.

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    Brian Marick learned Ruby in 2001 because Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt, original authors of "Programming Ruby", wouldn't let him off a shuttle bus until he said he would. He's been programming in it ever since, and he's made a special effort to teach it to software testers. His previous book is "Everyday Scripting with Ruby", which began as a tutorial for those very testers. He's not a Ruby programmer by trade. He makes most of his money as a consultant in the Agile methodologies. (After getting off the shuttle bus, he was one of the authors of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development.")

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    April 06, 2007: During the mid- and late-1980s I was was working in C and eventually C. During that period I devoured any programming book I could get my hands on. My favorites were very practical books--those books that built real, working examples. Herb Schildt and Al Stevens were the best at this. I?ve often wished for such books on the newer languages as I learn them. Brian Marick has given us exactly this type of book with his ?Everyday Scripting with Ruby.? I?m one of those programmers who read a little bit about Ruby and was only mildly intrigued until I read about Rails. Once I read about Rails I just dove in?I didn?t bother to learn much Ruby, only looking something up in ?Programming Ruby? when I couldn?t figure it out by trial and error. I became proficient enough at getting things done in Rails but certainly didn?t have a solid, comfortable feeling for Ruby itself. This book fills in those gaps for me. This is the Ruby book I wish I?d read first. ?Everyday Scripting with Ruby? covers four very real-life small projects, each of a decent size. The projects are small enough that you don?t need to remember every detail from the prior 100 pages but are big enough that you can learn real lessons from them. This is absolutely the best beginner book on Ruby available.