O Reilly: 1860 books
bash Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for bash Users
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
For system administrators, programmers, and end users, shell command or carefully crafted shell script can save you time and effort, or facilitate consistency and repeatability for a variety of common tasks. This cookbook provides more than 300 practical recipes for using bash, the popular Unix shell...
Ruby Cookbook
Recipes for Object-Oriented Scripting
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Why spend time on coding problems that others have already solved when you could be making real progress on your Ruby project? This updated cookbook provides more than 350 recipes for solving common problems, on topics ranging from basic data structures, classes, and objects, to web development, distributed...
50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers
Get the Most Out of Your Database
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you...
Ruby Best Practices
Increase Your Productivity - Write Better Code
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
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...
Head First Ruby
A Brain-Friendly Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
What will you learn from this book?
What’s all the buzz about this Ruby language? Is it right for you? Well, ask yourself: are you tired of all those extra declarations, keywords, and compilation steps in your other language? Do you want to be a more productive programmer? Then you’ll love...
Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB
Tools for Data Analysts
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you'll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you'll learn how to create a variety of MapReduce views to help you query and aggregate data...
Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS
Unleash Multicore Performance with Grand Central Dispatch
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn't it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple's Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore iOS devices and Mac OS X.
Managing...
Scaling CouchDB
Replication, Clustering, and Administration
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process,...
Advanced Rails
Building Industrial-Strength Web Apps in Record Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2007
Ready to go to the next level with Rails? From examining the parts of Ruby that make this framework possible to deploying large Rails applications, Advanced Rails offers you an in-depth look at techniques for dealing with databases, security, performance, web services and much more.
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Big Data for Chimps
A Guide to Massive-Scale Data Processing in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Finding patterns in massive event streams can be difficult, but learning how to find them doesn’t have to be. This unique hands-on guide shows you how to solve this and many other problems in large-scale data processing with simple, fun, and elegant tools that leverage Apache Hadoop. You’ll gain...
Puppet Types and Providers
Extending Puppet with Ruby
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Puppet’s true power exists in the simple resource model it uses to manage the state of complex operating systems. This concise guide shows you how to extend that model and implement custom functionality on top of Puppet by working with the type and provider APIs.Two experts from Puppet Labs...
Ruby Pocket Reference
Instant Help for Ruby Programmers
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Updated for Ruby 2.2, this handy reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby’s core elements—from operators to blocks to documentation creation—and highlights the key features you may work with every day. Need to know the correct syntax for a conditional? Forgot the name of that String...
MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
Ruby and Cocoa on OS X
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Want to build native Mac OS X applications with a sleek, developer-friendly alternative to Objective-C? MacRuby is an ideal choice. This in-depth guide shows you how Apple’s implementation of Ruby gives you access to all the features available to Objective-C programmers. You’ll get clear, detailed...
by Justin Edelson, Henry Liu
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
If you're interested in JRuby, you probably don't need a turorial on Ruby, Rails, or Java -- you just need to know how to get things done. This Cookbook offers practical solutions for using the Java implementation of the Ruby language, with targeted recipes for deploying Rails web applications on...