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Wicked pdf a pdf generation plugin for ruby on rails. This book is a heavily revised version of the book programming ruby, originally published by addison wesley. To upgrade rubygems or install it for the first time if you need to use ruby 1. Eighteen chapters devoted to specific information about specific gem materials. The ruby notes for professionals book is compiled from stack overflow documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at stack overflow.
The bastards book of ruby, written by dan nguyen, is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hardtofind data. Arguably the finest book ever devoted to a single gem species. Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. The zip file contains the book of ruby free edition plus all source code. This library provides the ability to create pdf documents using only native ruby libraries. This is the first comprehensive english language publication to place gem deposits into a concise geological and genetic framework. Become a contributor and improve the site yourself is made possible through a partnership with the greater ruby community. The book of ruby is not just technically good or accurate, it is truly well written. Download citation practical ruby gems practical ruby gems is a comprehensive. Jul 25, 2009 this library provides the ability to create pdf documents using only native ruby libraries. Apr 29, 2014 her novel ruby was chosen to be an oprah book club 2. Jewelry televisionis proud to present the sisk gemology reference, a comprehensive visual gemstone resource many years in the making. Programming ruby 3 aka pickaxe this 2009 version covers ruby 1.
A nifty gem, in pure ruby, to parse pdf files and combine merge them with other pdf files, number the pages, watermark them or stamp them, create tables. The bastards book of ruby march 23, 2012 free online book. Youll need the rubygems system to follow the examples from this book. Tutorials, guides, faqs for rubygems package management. This book is written for gnulinux debian distro users, thats because i think. A pen rosenthal fellow, bond attended northwestern universitys medill school of journalism, then moved to new york and attended the american academy of dramatic arts. Provides a better api for accessing, deploying, and managing gems along with clear and accessible project pages. The wholesale price grids include 80 gem varieties plus sections dedicated to opals and pearls. The book of ruby is provided in the form of a pdf document in which each chapter is accompanied by readytorun source code for all the examples. Mar 23, 2012 the bastards book of ruby march 23, 2012 free online book.
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Practical ruby gems makes few assumptions about the readers level of knowledge and delivers a brief installconfiguremanage tutorial to get novice readers up to speed. The pdfreader library implements a pdf parser conforming as much as possible to the pdf specification from adobe. The gem command allows you to interact with rubygems ruby 1. It provides programmatic access to the contents of a pdf file with a high degree of flexibility. Programming ruby 2nd edition the pragmatic programmers guide by dave thomas, with chad fowler and andy hunt. Though very old, you cannot go wrong with whytheluckystiffs seminal work, whys poignant guide to ruby. The pickaxe book, named for the tool on the cover, is the definitive reference to ruby, a highlyregarded, fully objectoriented programming language. Search gias library catalog of 57,000 books, 1,800 videos, 700 periodicals, and the renowned cartier rare book repository and archive. If you want to see how to require files from a gem, skip ahead to what is a gem.
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