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The Ruby Workshop

You're reading from The Ruby Workshop Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838642365

Length 544 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Ruby

Tools

Ruby on Rails

Concepts

Programming Language

Authors (4):

Dániel Szabó

Akshat Paul

Peter Philips

Cheyne Wallace

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

About the Book

1. Writing and Running Ruby Programs

2. Ruby Data Types and Operations FREE CHAPTER

3. Program Flow

Ruby Methods

5. Object-Oriented programming with Ruby

6. Modules and Mixins

7. Introduction to Ruby Gems

8. Debugging with Ruby

9. Ruby Beyond the Basics l

10. Ruby Beyond the Basics ll

11. Introduction to Ruby on Rails l

12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails ll

Appendix

Creating a Ruby Gem

As covered in Chapter 7, Introduction to Ruby Gems, a gem is a way for Ruby to package and distribute Ruby programs and libraries. So far, we have been using many open source Ruby gems, which has a positive impact on the speed of development.

In this section, we will learn to create a Ruby gem. Also, RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language and comes with tools baked in by default, which makes it really easy to create a gem and distribute it.

Let's jump right in to creating a simple Ruby gem.

Before you create your first file for your gem, you must make sure to find a suitable name for your gem. RubyGems has official documentation for naming conventions and it is advised to use this for improved programming experiences.

Note

You can refer to this naming convention at https://packt.live/2Bcz1dN.

Exercise 10.07: Creating Your Own Ruby Gem

In this exercise, we will be creating our own Ruby gem, before installing it...

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Authors (4)

Akshat Paul

Akshat Paul

Akshat Paul is a programmer and is working as a lead developer at a Management Consulting firm. He has extensive experience of mobile application development and has delivered many enterprise and consumer applications. In other avatars, Akshat frequently speaks and evangelizes at conferences and meetup groups on various technologies; this way he plays his part in giving back to the community. He has given talks at RubyConfIndia and #inspect-RubyMotion Conference. He also has a strong belief in Agile methodologies for creating world-class software, and is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

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Wallace

Wallace

Cheyne Wallace is a full stack developer with over a decade of industry experience. He is currently working with Ruby, Rails, GoLang, JavaScript, AngularJS, D3JS, SASS, AWS EC2/RDS, Heroku, Ubuntu, Postgres, API design and cloud service architecture. Previously a Microsoft developer working with C#, PowerShell, SSIS and ASP MVC for the enterprise world, he worked in the financial services and banking sectors around Sydney and London for many years until eventually jumping ship and joining a startup in 2012. He is the creator of the encrypted note application NoteShred, the photography analytics web app The Lightroom Dashboard, and has been written about in VentureBeat and The Next Web.

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Dániel Szabó

Dániel Szabó

Daniel Erno Szabo is a 28-year-old IT geek. He is currently working as a DevOps engineer for an American company in Hungary. His main profile is automation and custom solutions based on different languages covering Windows and Linux. His favorite language is Python, but he is also fluent in Ruby, PowerShell, and C#. He loves learning, teaching, and sharing his knowledge with other people. In his free time, he is a YouTuber and a ferret owner.

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Philips

Philips

Peter Philips has been a Ruby on Rails developer since 2006. Since then he has evolved into a systems architect, CTO, and entrepreneur co-founding a silicon valley design agency called PlanetIO and the enterprise employee recognition platform, RecognizeApp. His specialty is systems architecture and clean, scalable design patterns for the enterprise. Peter is passionate about using technology to help the world and has also founded the organization, TechForProgress, to report on how technology can be used to this end. Peter is an avid rock climber and also an amateur electronics engineer prototyping all kinds of projects from led origami flowers to wireless speakers.

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