Practical Ruby Projects

Practical Ruby Projects presents nine diverse projects that will teach innovative techniques in a learn-by-example fashion. They include a turn-based adventure game and a generative music creator. While there are many other Ruby titles, none of them take this unique approach to teaching.

Revitalized by Ruby on Rails, the Ruby language continues to grow in popularity. Books like this are necessary to fill the demand. Here is a classic of its kind; required reading for Ruby programmers who have already mastered the basics and want to learn higher level techniques. Practical Ruby Projects presents nine diverse projects that will teach new and innovative techniques in a learn-by-example fashion. These projects include a turn-based adventure game and a generative music creator. While there are many other Ruby titles, none of them take this unique project-based approach to teaching. It's an original approach to Ruby, which will inspire existing Ruby users, rather than just rehashing the basics.

This book uses a series of creative projects to teach many innovative techniques It is an original approach to Ruby, which will inspire existing Ruby users, rather than just rehashing the basics Revitalized by Ruby on Rails, the Ruby language continues to grow in popularity. Books like this are necessary to fill the demand

Autorentext
Topher Cyll is a software engineer and writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Williams College and works for a small Boston-area startup. In reverse alphabetical order, he finds programming languages, music, free software, education, bioengineering, and beer terribly exciting. Topher loves Ruby not only for the language itself, but also the light-hearted and intellectually curious community that surrounds it.

Inhalt
Introduction.- You Too Can Make Bad Techno: Making Music with Ruby.- Animating Ruby.- Making Change: Simulation in Ruby.- Who's Turn is it Anyways? Building a Turn Based Strategy Game.- Making Beautiful UIs with RubyCocoa.- Only the Bad Die Young: Genetic Algorithms in Ruby.- The Building Blocks of Life: Manipulating DNA in Ruby.- Sister Languages: Implementing Lisp in Ruby.- File Formats and DSLs: Parsing with Ruby.