Practical Ruby Gems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Using RubyGems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What Is RubyGems?

      Pages 3-6

   3. Installing RubyGems

      Pages 7-11

   4. Using RubyGems in Your Code

      Pages 13-24

   5. Managing Installed Gem Versions

      Pages 25-31

3. Using Particular Gems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. Data Access with the ActiveRecord Gem

      Pages 35-44

   3. Easy Text Markup with the BlueCloth Gem

      Pages 45-51

   4. Creating Web Applications with Camping

      Pages 53-68

   5. Creating Command-Line Utilities with cmdparse

      Pages 69-79

   6. HTML Templating with erubis

      Pages 81-88

   7. Parsing Feeds with feedtools

      Pages 89-93

   8. Creating Graphical User Interfaces with fxruby

      Pages 95-102

   9. Retrieving Stock Quotes with YahooFinance

      Pages 103-107

   10. Parsing HTML with hpricot

       Pages 109-114

   11. Writing HTML as Ruby with Markaby

       Pages 115-120

   12. Parsing CSV with fastercsv

       Pages 121-125

   13. Multiple Dispatch with multi

       Pages 127-135

   14. Serving Web Applications with mongrel

       Pages 137-143

Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gems—ready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects.

You'll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book. Each of these also comes complete with actual use cases and code examples that you can use immediately in your own projects.

• Camping
• Clean
• Markaby
• Mongrel
• Rake
• Ruby
• RubyGems
• Turing
• selection

David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal. Prior to this, he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic. His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com, a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot.com on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow's BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby. David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He's also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as "MySQL and You" and "Making Money with Open Source Software." He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.

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