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While only a little bit of Ruby knowledge is necessary to utilize
frameworks originally written in Ruby, the more Ruby you learn, the
more capabilities you can achieve. Programming the Ruby Way, 2nd Edition is
written to help you achieve this level of knowledge using real, well
written, code examples. It provides solutions to specific tasks that
you need and often struggle with as you hone your Ruby programming
skills.
This practical "how-to" approach, written by experienced Ruby
programmer
Hal Fulton has
two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi. He
taught computer science for four years at the community college level
before moving to Austin, Texas, for a series of contracts (mainly at
IBM Austin). He has worked for more than 15 years with various forms of
UNIX, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He was first exposed to Ruby
in 1999, and in 2001 he began work on the first edition of this book,
which was the second Ruby book in the English language. He has attended
six Ruby conferences and has given presentations at four of those,
including the first European Ruby Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He
currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, working
on a large data warehouse and related telecom applications. He works
daily with C++, Oracle, and of course, Ruby.
Hal
is still active daily on the Ruby mailing list and IRC channel, and has
several Ruby projects in progress. He is a member of the ACM and the
IEEE Computer Society. In his personal life, he enjoys music, reading,
writing, art, and photography. He is a member of the Mars Society and
is a space enthusiast who would love to go into space before he dies.
He lives in Austin, Texas.
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