O'Reilly Readies Two New Ruby Books

CGIDir
Thursday, April 6, 2006; 03:39 AM

Ruby on Rails is rapidly evolving and gaining popularity, and O'Reilly Media is moving fast to provide the developer community with the needed Ruby books.  Two  new titles will be released in the coming months, but subscribers to O'Reilly Rough Cuts preview service can get an early sneak peek.

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, is slated for release in June this year.   It "helps you get up and running quickly, showing you everything from building a schema and making a simple controller to designing a Rails interface and building a project model -- along with details on how to add a controller and generate scaffolding. The book's more advanced material shows you how to Map data to an imperfect table, traverse complex relationships, and build custom finders. The section on working with Ajax and REST demonstrates how you can exploit the Rails service frameworks to send emails, implement web services, and create dynamic, user-centric web pages using built-in JavaScript and Ajax support."  Rough Cuts version is available now.

The second title,  Ruby Cookbook, follows "the tradition of the Perl, Python, and Java cookbooks. It provides many recipes showing you how to do common tasks, and that you can cut and paste into your own code. It covers everything from the basics, like string manipulation numbers, to specialized topics like Rails, XML, internet programming, distributed programming, threading, system administration and extending Ruby."  It will be ready in August, Rough Cuts version is currently available.