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Practical Ruby for System Administration

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  • © 2007

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Authors:
  1. André Ben Hamou
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  • The only book to describe Ruby for system administration and the only one that covers general sys admin topics

  • Will appeal both to traditional system administrator audience as well as core Ruby readership

  • Continues the Apress line of books focusing on practical real-world development with modern popular web development techniques

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. What Ruby Can Do for You

    Pages 1-14

  3. Common Tasks, Quick Solutions

    Pages 15-21

  4. A Practical Look at Performance

    Pages 23-41

  5. The Power of Metaprogramming

    Pages 43-55

  6. Building Files the Smart Way

    Pages 57-72

  7. Object Storage and Retrieval

    Pages 73-97

  8. Working with Enterprise Data

    Pages 99-132

  9. Networking for Fun and Profit

    Pages 133-153

  10. Network Monitoring

    Pages 155-176

  11. Extending Ruby: A Fistful of Gems

    Pages 177-191

  12. Testing and Documentation

    Pages 193-209

  13. The Future of Ruby

    Pages 211-217

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 219-239
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About this book

Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are discovering that Ruby's flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks, from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment.

Within the pages of Practical Ruby for System Administration, you'll learn the Ruby way to construct files, tap into clouds of data, build domain-specific languages, perform network traffic analysis, and more.

Based on author André Ben Hamou's own experiences working as a system administrator, this book will help you pick up practical tips on Ruby coding style, learn how to analyze and improve script performance, and make use of no-nonsense advice on scripting workflow, including testing and documentation.

Above all, you'll come to appreciate the sheer power of Ruby and the hundreds of benefits it offers for system administration.

  • This book places equal emphasis on fundamental Ruby concepts as well as practical how-tos.
  • It uses examples from other languages to ease the transition to Ruby.
  • The book is concise, entertaining, and informative—unlike many books aimed at system administrators, which can be overly long and stodgy.

About the author

Andre Ben Hamou is the senior systems architect for Freedom 255, a major British Internet service provider. He was responsible for introducing Ruby to the organization, which is bringing about a massive increase in efficiency and interoperability both internally and with outside systems. Prior to this, he spent a decade as a general-purpose software hacker, working in Perl, C, C++, and Objective-C. He spent five years at Imperial College London working on various numerical problems including computational physics simulations, and graduated with a master of science degree with honors. He is also an associate of the Royal College of Science. During his time at Imperial College, he worked as a systems integrator within Imperial's prestigious Department of Computing. He likes walking, talking, and taking abusive liberties with the English language. He lives with his imaginary cat on the south coast of England.

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