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Polished Ruby Programming: Build better software with more intuitive, maintainable, scalable, and high-performance Ruby code
The most successful apps become more difficult to maintain over time as the codebase increases in size. Often, the source code reaches a point where a rewrite is required because the application can no longer be effectively maintained. Ruby allows you to enjoy programming by making it as simple as possible to build maintainable and scalable apps. Polished Ruby Programming provides you with recommendations and advice for designing Ruby programs that are easy to maintain in the long-term.
This book takes you through implementation approaches for many common programming situations, the trade-offs inherent in each approach, and why you may choose to use different approaches in different situations. You will start by learning fundamental Ruby programming principles, such as correctly using core classes, class and method design, variable usage, error handling, and code formatting. Later chapters cover higher-level programming principles, such as library design, use of metaprogramming and domain-specific languages, and refactoring. Finally, you will learn principles specific to web app development, such as how to choose a database and web framework, and how to use advanced security features.
By the end of this Ruby programming book, you’ll have gained the skills you need to design robust, high-performance, scalable, and maintainable Ruby apps.
This book takes you through implementation approaches for many common programming situations, the trade-offs inherent in each approach, and why you may choose to use different approaches in different situations. You will start by learning fundamental Ruby programming principles, such as correctly using core classes, class and method design, variable usage, error handling, and code formatting. Later chapters cover higher-level programming principles, such as library design, use of metaprogramming and domain-specific languages, and refactoring. Finally, you will learn principles specific to web app development, such as how to choose a database and web framework, and how to use advanced security features.
By the end of this Ruby programming book, you’ll have gained the skills you need to design robust, high-performance, scalable, and maintainable Ruby apps.
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381 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 9, 2021
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August 17, 2021
The full review (with my highlights and comments) is available on my blog: https://pothix.com/polishedruby
I got a contact from Packtpub about this book. The deal was to receive the book for free in exchange for an honest review. Here I am, just finished the book and will write about it.
The book is quite good, there's a lot of good information there, and I would totally recommend to someone investing in Ruby.
The author did some great contributions to the Ruby community (Ruby Committer, Lead developer of Sequel, Roda, and Rodauth. OpenBSD ruby ports maintainer.), is doing software and community work for many years now (I can quickly check his open source work since 2008), and has some strong opinions about famous Ruby libraries.
For most of the book, I was totally into the narrative and how the author was organizing information. When things started to go more into the web, I started to feel something different. It felt like the author was selling one library or the other, because they were _much better_ than others. Turns out, it's the libraries he created himself 🙄. After that, I had the same feeling, until I finished the book.
The book still deserves a 4 star review. The content until the web part is indeed great. Jeremy was able to write down some interesting pieces of advice on how to use Ruby in some particular scenarios where performance is needed. I especially liked the chapter 6, about code formatting. The final part of the book is also OK, but you have to read it with a grain of salt as it feels like a mother talking about how pretty is her son/daughter. 😅
I got a contact from Packtpub about this book. The deal was to receive the book for free in exchange for an honest review. Here I am, just finished the book and will write about it.
The book is quite good, there's a lot of good information there, and I would totally recommend to someone investing in Ruby.
The author did some great contributions to the Ruby community (Ruby Committer, Lead developer of Sequel, Roda, and Rodauth. OpenBSD ruby ports maintainer.), is doing software and community work for many years now (I can quickly check his open source work since 2008), and has some strong opinions about famous Ruby libraries.
For most of the book, I was totally into the narrative and how the author was organizing information. When things started to go more into the web, I started to feel something different. It felt like the author was selling one library or the other, because they were _much better_ than others. Turns out, it's the libraries he created himself 🙄. After that, I had the same feeling, until I finished the book.
The book still deserves a 4 star review. The content until the web part is indeed great. Jeremy was able to write down some interesting pieces of advice on how to use Ruby in some particular scenarios where performance is needed. I especially liked the chapter 6, about code formatting. The final part of the book is also OK, but you have to read it with a grain of salt as it feels like a mother talking about how pretty is her son/daughter. 😅
February 8, 2022
Jeremy Evans is in no double a great developer.
He does provide a lot of insights on the way to write good software. In terms of the content it is really great. And he is doing a lot of very interesting analysis on those popular web frameworks and the way to implement that. In terms of content, I will give 5.5 stars.
However, I really want to complain the editing of ebook version.
It was edited poorly.
Since there are no syntax highlight for code, following the code is definitely not easy.
Not to mention the formatting of the book. The content is so dense to read.
Please find a better publisher like Pragmatic or Manning..
And it spends me really double of time to read the book.
He does provide a lot of insights on the way to write good software. In terms of the content it is really great. And he is doing a lot of very interesting analysis on those popular web frameworks and the way to implement that. In terms of content, I will give 5.5 stars.
However, I really want to complain the editing of ebook version.
It was edited poorly.
Since there are no syntax highlight for code, following the code is definitely not easy.
Not to mention the formatting of the book. The content is so dense to read.
Please find a better publisher like Pragmatic or Manning..
And it spends me really double of time to read the book.
November 30, 2022
Very nice for intermediate Ruby Developers. Not too hard but still pushing some concepts to a useful and practical level — I could apply many of the recommendations immediately in my project! :)
May 29, 2024
I thought it was a great little book. I skipped a handful of chapters, but otherwise a nice refresher on Ruby basics.
February 11, 2025
It focuses on how to improve your skills with Ruby, going as deep as explaining how things work under the hood.
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