Cooper P. Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional

3rd ed. — Apress, 2016. — 476 p. — ISBN: 9781484212790Based on the bestselling first and second editions, Beginning Ruby, Third Edition is a leading guide to learn Ruby from the ground up. The new edition of this book provides the same excellent introduction to Ruby as the previous editions plus updates for the newest version of Ruby 2.3 which includes new garbage collection support of symbol type objections, a new incremental garbage collector, memory management, vfork(2) with system and spawn functions and much more. This book can also be used as a textbook or companion to a textbook on beginning Ruby programming.
The light and agile Ruby programming language remains a very popular open source scripting option for developers building today's web and even some enterprise applications. And, now, Ruby also has applications using the Raspberry Pi, popular among hobbyists and makers. Many former Java developers still use Ruby on Rails today, the most popular framework for building Ruby applications.What you’ll learn• What are the fundamentals of Ruby and its object-oriented building blocks
• How to work with Ruby libraries, gems, and documentation
• How to work with files and databases
• How to write and deploy Ruby applications
• What are the various Ruby web frameworks and how to use them
• How to do network programming with Ruby and moreWho this book is forThis book is for beginning programmers, programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in learning and knowing the foundations of the Ruby programming language.