Addison-Wesley Professional publishes The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition

Addison-Wesley Professional Launches First Book in the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series

Robust and Innovative Library of Ruby Reference Material 

Upper Saddle River, November 17, 2006--- Addison-Wesley Professional, the leading publisher of 
quality books for software developers, today announced the launch of the first book within 
the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series¬: the second edition of Hal Fulton's classic 
text, The Ruby Way. The series also includes several digital documents known as Short Cuts 
that present succinct reads on Ruby-related topics. 

Ruby is an object-oriented language, borrowing some of the best features from LISP, Smalltalk, 
Perl, and other languages. Ruby On Rails™ is an open-source web framework that’s optimized 
for sustainable, high productivity. 

Fulton takes a “how-to” approach to Ruby programming, providing more than 400 examples 
arranged by topic, with a step-by-step presentation of one good solution per problem. 

The new series meets a surge in demand for learning materials on Ruby, from programmers 
undertaking Ruby grassroots projects for the first time, to web developers moving over 
from older technologies such as PHP, to enterprise users basing large systems development 
and integration on Ruby. Series authors are all recognized pioneers of the Ruby and Rails 
community.

Obie Fernandez serves as Editor of the series, due to his experience as a senior consultant 
at ThoughtWorks, leading Ruby and Rails advocacy and project delivery. Since pledging to 
support Ruby on Rails in early 2005, ThoughtWorks teams have put several Rails solutions 
into production for their clients, helping to solidify a world-renowned reputation.

Short Cuts already published within the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series are:
Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications, authored by Matt Pelletier, 
Zed Shaw, (October 2006); Rails Plugins: Extending Rails Beyond the Core, authored by James Adam,
(September 2006); and Rubyisms in Rails, authored by Jacob Harris, (July 2006). 

These titles have Table of Contents listed and are available for purchase at: 
www.awprofessional.com/ruby 
	
Forthcoming titles include Rails Refactoring to Resources (Digital Short Cut): Using CRUD and 
REST in Your Rails Application, authored by Trotter Cashion (December 2006); Rails Acceptance 
Testing with Selenium and Watir (Digital Short Cut), authored by David Hanley Hoover 
(January 2007); The Rails Way, authored by Obie Fernandez (Spring 2007); and RailsSpace:Building 
a Social Networking Website with Ruby on Rails, authored by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka 
(Spring 2007). 

For updates on new releases, please visit the Series website at: www.awprofessional.com/ruby  

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