The dRuby Book--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

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The dRuby Book--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Distributed and Parallel Computing with Ruby

Raleigh, NC--In "The dRuby Book: Distributed and Parallel Computing with Ruby" (Pragmatic
Bookshelf, $35.00), you'll learn directly from legendary Japanese Ruby hacker Masatoshi Seki in
this first English-language book on his own Distributed Ruby library. You'll find out about
distributed computing, advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, and the philosophy of the Ruby
way--straight from the source.

dRuby has been part of the Ruby standard library for more than a decade, yet few know the true
power of the gem. Completely written in Ruby, dRuby enables you to communicate between distributed
Ruby processes as if there were no boundaries between processes. This is one of the few books that
covers distributed and parallel programming for Ruby developers.

"The dRuby Book" has been completely updated and expanded from its Japanese version, with three new
chapters written by Masatoshi-san. You'll find out about the design concepts of the dRuby library,
and walk through step-by-step tutorial examples. By building various distributed applications,
you'll master distributed programming as well as advanced Ruby techniques such as multithreading,
object references, garbage collection, and security.

Then you'll graduate to advanced techniques for using dRuby with Masatoshi-san's other libraries,
such as eRuby and Rinda--the Ruby version of the Linda distributed tuplespace system. In the three
new chapters, you'll see how to integrate dRuby and eRuby, get a thorough grounding in parallel
programming concepts with Rinda, and create a full text search system using Drip.

Step by step, you'll gain mastery of dRuby and distributed computing.

Available in epub, mobi, and PDF direct from the publisher and in paperback from fine bookstores
worldwide.

What People are Saying
The dRuby Book is a fantastic introduction to distributed programming in Ruby for all levels of
users.
--Eric Hodel, Ruby committer, RDoc and RubyGems maintainer

dRuby is the key component that liberates Ruby objects from processes and machine platforms.
Masatoshi himself explains its design, features, case studies, and even more in this book.
--Yuki "Yugui" Sonoda, Ruby 1.9 release manager

Any programmer wanting to understand concurrency and distributed systems using Ruby should read
this book.
--Aaron Patterson, Ruby and Ruby on Rails core committer

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About the Author
Author Masatoshi Seki is a Ruby committer and an author of several Ruby standard libraries
including dRuby, eRuby, and Rinda. He's an expert in object-oriented programming, distributed
systems, and eXtreme programming. His favorite Ruby methods are "method_missing" and "inject". He's
the author of "Distributed Object Programming with dRuby" and "Distributed Web Programming with
dRuby", of which this book is an updated and expanded translation.

Additional Resources
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excerpts from the book and more, see the catalog page for "The dRuby Book: Distributed and Parallel
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The dRuby Book
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
By Masatoshi Seki
Print ISBN: 9781934356937
Pages: 280
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