Now that you know the Ruby language, how do you get the most out of it? Ruby Best Practices is for programmers who want to use Ruby the way Rubyists do. Written by the developer of the Ruby project Prawn (http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com), this concise book explains how to design beautiful APIs and domain-specific languages, work with functional programming ideas and techniques that can simplify your code and make you more productive, write code that's readable and expressive, and much more. There's a lot more to Ruby than just knowing the language, and with Ruby Best Practices you will:

• Understand Ruby's secret powers: flexible argument processing and code blocks
• Learn how to bend Ruby code without breaking it, such as mixing in modules on the fly
• Discover the ins and outs of testing and debugging, and learn to design for testability
• Realize that Ruby doesn't have to be slow - you'll learn to write faster code by keeping things simple
• Learn strategies for text processing and file management, including regular expressions
• Understand how bad practices, pitfalls, and other messes occur

A perfect companion to The Ruby Programming Language, the bestselling book from O'Reilly, Ruby Best Practices offers you three comprehensive chapters on driving code through tests, designing beautiful APIs, and text processing and file management. With this Rough Cuts edition, you can read these chapters as they're completed, either online or via PDF.

Learn how to take this rich, beautiful language and make the most of it with Ruby Best Practices.