Ruby and Ruby on Rails Programming

The last security guide for Rails was a great success, with a lot of more secure web applications and continued awareness in the community of security issues. The Ruby on Rails Security Project is the one and only source of information about Rails security topics, and I keep the community up-to-date with blog posts and conference talks in Europe. The Guide and the Project has been mentioned in several Rails books and web-sites.

How do you write truly elegant code with Ruby? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby as experienced Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn, this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages with Ruby, as well as how to work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive. You'll learn how to write code that's readable, expressive, and much more.

Get the high-quality documentation you need to create effective database-driven websites with the popular Rails framework. Rails 3 in a Nutshell is the first book available on the latest version, Rails 3.0. It provides you with a concise yet thorough introduction to the framework, an overview of commands and configurations, and a comprehensive reference to every method - all in one handy, easy-to-use reference.

This book is an introduction to MacRuby. MacRuby is Apple's implementation of the Ruby programming Language. More precisely, it is a Ruby implementation that uses the well known and proven Objective-C runtime giving you direct native access to all the OS X libraries. The end result is a first-class, compilable scripting language designed to develop applications for the OS X platform.

This book will guide you in creating a Rails application. It will focus on setting your system up properly and will fly a little lower than the typical 50,000 foot level of many tutorials.

Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While other books focus on Ruby's trendier features, The Book of Ruby reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world's most popular programming languages, teaching you to write clear, maintainable code.