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Foreword;Preface; Audience; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Driving Code Through Tests;
1.1 A Quick Note on Testing Frameworks;
1.2 Designing for Testability;
1.3 Testing Fundamentals;
1.4 Advanced Testing Techniques;
1.5 Keeping Things Organized;
1.6 Conclusions;
Chapter 2: Designing Beautiful APIs;
2.1 Designing for Convenience: Ruport's Table( ) feature;
2.2 Ruby's Secret Power: Flexible Argument Processing;
2.3 Ruby's Other Secret Power: Code Blocks;
2.4 Avoiding Surprises;
2.5 Conclusions;
Chapter 3: Mastering the Dynamic Toolkit;
3.1 BlankSlate: A BasicObject on Steroids;
3.2 Building Flexible Interfaces;
3.3 Implementing Per-Object Behavior;
3.4 Extending and Modifying Preexisting Code;
3.5 Building Classes and Modules Programmatically;
3.6 Registering Hooks and Callbacks;
3.7 Conclusions;
Chapter 4: Text Processing and File Management;
4.1 Line-Based File Processing with State Tracking;
4.2 Regular Expressions;
4.3 Working with Files;
4.4 The tempfile Standard Library;
4.5 Text-Processing Strategies;
4.6 Conclusions;
Chapter 5: Functional Programming Techniques;
5.1 Laziness Can Be a Virtue (A Look at lazy.rb);
5.2 Minimizing Mutable State and Reducing Side Effects;
5.3 Modular Code Organization;
5.4 Memoization;
5.5 Infinite Lists;
5.6 Higher-Order Procedures;
5.7 Conclusions;
Chapter 6: When Things Go Wrong;
6.1 A Process for Debugging Ruby Code;
6.2 Capturing the Essence of a Defect;
6.3 Scrutinizing Your Code;
6.4 Working with Logger;
6.5 Conclusions;
Chapter 7: Reducing Cultural Barriers;
7.1 m17n by Example: A Look at Ruby's CSV Standard Library;
7.2 Portable m17n Through UTF-8 Transcoding;
7.3 m17n in Standalone Scripts;
7.4 m17n-Safe Low-Level Text Processing;
7.5 Localizing Your Code;
7.6 Conclusions;
Chapter 8: Skillful Project Maintenance;
8.1 Exploring a Well-Organized Ruby Project (Haml);
8.2 Conventions to Know About;
8.3 API Documentation via RDoc;
8.4 The RubyGems Package Manager;
8.5 Rake: Ruby's Built-in Build Utility;
8.6 Conclusions;Writing Backward-Compatible Code; Avoiding a Mess; Nonportable Features in Ruby
1.9; Workarounds for Common Issues; Conclusions;Leveraging Ruby's Standard Library; Why Do We Need a Standard Library?; Pretty-Printer for Ruby Objects (pp); Working with HTTP and FTP (open-uri); Working with Dates and Times (date); Lexical Parsing with Regular Expressions (strscan); Cryptographic Hash Functions (digest); Mathematical Ruby Scripts (mathn); Working with Tabular Data (csv); Transactional Filesystem-Based Data Storage (pstore); Human-Readable Data Serialization (json); Embedded Ruby for Code Generation (erb); Conclusions;Ruby Worst Practices; Not-So-Intelligent Design; The Downside of Cleverness; Conclusions;Colophon;