With the introduction of Ruby on Rails, the hot new web development framework, the Ruby scripting language has been a rising star among programmers over the past year. This new book -- written in the tradition of our highly successful Perl, Python, and Java cookbook titles -- covers all aspects of the language, from the basics to more advanced issues, so that programmers of any level can learn by example and improve their Ruby development skills.

Not only does a large section of the Ruby Cookbook deal with Ruby on Rails, there are also plenty of hands-on recipes for a variety of other projects using the language, including system administration, building applications with the Rake build tool, working with databases and persistence, and writing extensions to Ruby. This problem-solving cookbook sets the standard for Ruby in a variety of programming environments.