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The dRuby Book: Distributed and Parallel Computing With Ruby
Learn from legendary Japanese Ruby hacker Masatoshi Seki in this first English-language book on his own Distributed Ruby library. You'll find out about distributed computing, advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, and the philosophy of the Ruby way---straight from the source.
dRuby has been part of the Ruby standard library for more than a decade, yet few know the true power of the gem. Completely written in Ruby, dRuby enables you to communicate between distributed Ruby processes as if there were no boundaries between processes. This is one of the few books that covers distributed and parallel programming for Ruby developers.
The dRuby Book has been completely updated and expanded from its Japanese version, with three new chapters written by Masatoshi-san. You'll find out about the design concepts of the dRuby library, and walk through step-by-step tutorial examples. By building various distributed applications, you'll master distributed programming as well as advanced Ruby techniques such as multithreading, object references, garbage collection, and security. Then you'll graduate to advanced techniques for using dRuby with Masatoshi-san's other libraries, such as eRuby and Rinda---the Ruby version of the Linda distributed tuplespace system. In the three new chapters, you'll see how to integrate dRuby and eRuby, get a thorough grounding in parallel programming concepts with Rinda, and create a full text search system using Drip.
Step by step, you'll gain mastery of dRuby and distributed computing.
What You
Ruby 1.9.2 or above. All exercises were run on OS X, though it should work on any operating system. You are expected to be comfortable reading Ruby code, as we do not explain basic syntax.
dRuby has been part of the Ruby standard library for more than a decade, yet few know the true power of the gem. Completely written in Ruby, dRuby enables you to communicate between distributed Ruby processes as if there were no boundaries between processes. This is one of the few books that covers distributed and parallel programming for Ruby developers.
The dRuby Book has been completely updated and expanded from its Japanese version, with three new chapters written by Masatoshi-san. You'll find out about the design concepts of the dRuby library, and walk through step-by-step tutorial examples. By building various distributed applications, you'll master distributed programming as well as advanced Ruby techniques such as multithreading, object references, garbage collection, and security. Then you'll graduate to advanced techniques for using dRuby with Masatoshi-san's other libraries, such as eRuby and Rinda---the Ruby version of the Linda distributed tuplespace system. In the three new chapters, you'll see how to integrate dRuby and eRuby, get a thorough grounding in parallel programming concepts with Rinda, and create a full text search system using Drip.
Step by step, you'll gain mastery of dRuby and distributed computing.
What You
Ruby 1.9.2 or above. All exercises were run on OS X, though it should work on any operating system. You are expected to be comfortable reading Ruby code, as we do not explain basic syntax.
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253 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2012
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July 23, 2013
I thought this was a fantastic intro to DRB as well as multi-threading concurrency concepts. Great explanations and diagrams.
January 23, 2013
Excellent book for special ruby techniques in cases of networking and parallel programming.
The book takes you through basic distributed programming over to the ruby threads-implementation and than to very core-specific topics like garbage collecting in distributed environments. Its not just good for ruby programmers. Every chapter begins with an introduction to the topic, which a C developer for example can also use. The Examples in this book are going from beginner to expert. You should read when you are not tired to get everything. ;)
I will read some chapters again in the future.
The book takes you through basic distributed programming over to the ruby threads-implementation and than to very core-specific topics like garbage collecting in distributed environments. Its not just good for ruby programmers. Every chapter begins with an introduction to the topic, which a C developer for example can also use. The Examples in this book are going from beginner to expert. You should read when you are not tired to get everything. ;)
I will read some chapters again in the future.
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