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Name: Effective Ruby
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Peter J. Jones

Effective Ruby is a concise, practitioner-focused book that draws on nearly ten years of experience to deliver 48 Ruby best practices. The author explores key areas of Ruby development—including modules, inheritance, collections, metaprogramming, testing, exception handling, dependency management, memory profiling, and interpreter internals—and offers detailed, code-backed guidance on how to apply each technique effectively. By showing both powerful idioms and common pitfalls, the book helps developers deepen their understanding of Ruby’s nuances and choose the best solutions for their projects.

First publish date: 2015

Genre: Technology & Computing/Programming

Authors: Peter J. Jones

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