Practical Ruby Gems (eBook)

David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He's used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb's Journal. Prior to this, he worked professionally with PHP, Perl, C++, and Visual Basic. His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for CoolRuby.com, a site that tracks the latest Ruby developments, and working with ThoughtBot.com on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America's Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on several other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow's BirdFluBreakingNews search engine, and he also created the Slueshi text adventure game system, a multiplayer text game engine written in Ruby. David's journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Dr Dobb's Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He's also taught college courses and spoken publicly on topics such as "MySQL and You" and "Making Money with Open Source Software." He lives in New Hampshire and his hobbies include basketball, yo-yos, and sleep.

What Is RubyGems?
Installing RubyGems
Using RubyGems in Your Code
Managing Installed Gem Versions
Data Access with the ActiveRecord Gem
Easy Text Markup with the BlueCloth Gem
Creating Web Applications with Camping
Creating Command-Line Utilities with cmdparse
HTML Templating with erubis
Parsing Feeds with feedtools
Creating Graphical User Interfaces with fxruby
Retrieving Stock Quotes with YahooFinance
Parsing HTML with hpricot
Writing HTML as Ruby with Markaby
Parsing CSV with fastercsv
Multiple Dispatch with multi
Serving Web Applications with mongrel
Transferring Files Securely with net-sftp
Executing Commands on Remote Servers with net-ssh
Validating Credit Cards with creditcard
Writing PDFs with pdf-writer
Handling Recurring Events with runt
Building Websites with Rails
Automating Development Tasks with rake
Manipulating Images with RMagick
Speeding Up Web Applications with memcache-client
Managing Zip Archives with rubyzip
Speeding Up Function Calls with memoize
Tagging MP3 Files with id3lib-ruby
Shortening URLs with shorturl
Creating Standalone Ruby Applications with rubyscript2exe
Cleaning Dirty HTML with tidy
Parsing XML with xml-simple
Creating Our Own Gems
Distributing Gems