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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

You're reading from Comprehensive Ruby Programming From beginner to confident programmer

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280649

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Jordan Hudgens

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

1. Introduction to the Ruby Programming Language FREE CHAPTER

2. Ruby Variables

3. Ruby Strings

4. Working with Numbers in Ruby

5. Ruby Methods

6. Ruby Iterators and Loops

7. Ruby Collections

8. Ruby Conditionals

9. Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby

10. Working with the Filesystem in Ruby

11. Error Handling in Ruby

12. Regular Expressions in Ruby

13. Searching with grep in Ruby

14. Ruby Gems

15. Ruby Metaprogramming

16. Ruby Web Frameworks

17. Working with APIs in Ruby

18. Ruby Algorithms

19. Machine Learning

How to research Ruby gems

In this section, I'm going to show you how to research Ruby gems. The main repository for gems can be found at Rubygems.org (https://rubygems.org/):

On this site, you can find all kinds of gems. Additionally, you can refer to locations, such as GitHub (https://github.com/), to find new gems. However, it is considered a best practice to get gems from RubyGems.org because the site has the most up-to-date gems and versions. There are times when developers forget to update their GitHub repositories, which can result in version conflicts.

How to research gems

To get started, I'm going to search for a gem called pundit.

This will bring up the following search results for you:

If you click on the first link, it will take you to a page that has all the information needed to research the gem:

You can see how popular a gem is by looking at the number of times it has been downloaded. Also, this page shows the number of times that a particular version was downloaded, which is important...

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Authors (1)

Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens is a full-stack developer and the founder of DevCamp and the Bottega Code School. As a developer for over the past 15 years, he specializes in Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js, and TypeScript with a focus on API development. He has built applications for a wide variety of organizations, including Eventbrite and Quip. He has published and maintains multiple open-source NPM modules that help individuals automate the development process for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Additionally, he has published over 30 courses, taught 42,000 students globally, and written several programming books.

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