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Our own work has always benefited from seeing the techniques of others, so we hope that sharing the experience, approach, and philosophy that went into designing and developing Mongrel will be interesting and helpful for your own pursuits. 1 0321483502 9780321483508 1 2006-10-20 Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications Section 1: What This Short Cut Covers 4 Section 2: Introduction 6 Section 3: Getting Started 13 Section 4: Configurations 20 Section 5: Production Deployment 37 Section 6: Extending Mongrel 60 Section 7: Debugging 79 Section 8: Performance 90 Section 9: Security 96 Resources 103 Acknowledgments 105 About the Authors 106 http://www.informit.com/title/0321483502 2006-11-20T01:10:57Z http://www.informit.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0672328844&rl=1&aid=243fa4ce-9fb8-4dfd-9208-5f7d9810d86e 39 true 2006 2006-11-12T06:01:05Z Ruby is an agile object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, Perl, CLU, and other languages. Its popularity has grown tremendously in the five years since the first edition of this book. The Ruby Way takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby programming with the bulk of the material consisting of more than 400 examples arranged by topic. Each example answers the question “How do I do this in Ruby?” Working along with the author, you are presented with the task description and a discussion of the technical constraints. This is followed by a step-by-step presentation of one good solution. 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In particular, it looks at a few specific examples of how Rails' internal code is implemented in Ruby to instruct about Ruby's design principles. The main goal is simply aesthetic appreciation. But, if you are a beginning programmer in Rails who is stymied in your understanding of Ruby–or an intermediate Rails developer still writing code that looks like Ruby-tinged PHP or Java–this Short Cut will hopefully impart enlightenment and inspiration about the Ruby way of programming. 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