Practical Ruby Projects

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-5

3. Making Music with Ruby

   Pages 7-49

4. Animating Ruby

   Pages 51-91

5. Pocket Change: Simulating Coin Systems with Ruby

   Pages 93-118

6. Turn-Based Strategy in Ruby

   Pages 119-152

7. RubyCocoa

   Pages 153-195

8. Genetic Algorithms in Ruby

   Pages 197-221

9. Implementing Lisp in Ruby

   Pages 223-260

10. Parsing in Ruby

    Pages 261-291

11. Back Matter

    Pages 293-304

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Want to take Ruby to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and web programming? If you're comfortable with Ruby, you'll be itching to go further—apply Practical Ruby Projects: Ideas for the Eclectic Programmer and become a master of advanced Ruby techniques.

Rubyist Topher Cyll brings several imaginative projects to this book, ranging from making generative music, animations, and turn–based games to implementing simulations, algorithms, and even an implementation of Lisp!

Art, music, theory, and games—this book has it all. Best of all, it's all done with Ruby.

Each chapter, in addition to making you say “Cool—I hadn't thought of that before,” looks at solving tricky development problems, enforces best practices, and encourages creative thinking. You'll be building your own exciting, imaginative ruby projects in no time.

• Create imaginative and innovative Ruby programming projects
• Learn how to solve tricky development problems, be guided by best practices, and be inspired to think creatively
• Don't waste time on the basics—it's assumed you know the fundamentals of Ruby already

• Ruby on Rails
• animation
• development
• language
• programming
• simulation
• techniques
• web programming

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.

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