Practical Ruby Gems
Apress | ISBN: 1590598113 | 2007 | PDF | 288 pages | 11.3 MB</b>
Practical Ruby Gems is a comprehensive guide to utilizing and creating Ruby Gemsready-made Ruby code modules that can be easily added to Ruby and Rails projects. This book is ideal for Ruby programmers as well as web developers who use Rails and wish to extend the functionality of their projects.
Youll get a prime selection of 34 of the best and most useful Gems, which makes up the core of this book. Each of these also comes complete with actual use cases and code examples that you can use immediately in your own projects.

Christophe Porteneuve, Tristan Nitot, "Bien développer pour le Web 2.0 : Bonnes pratiques Ajax"
Eyrolles | ISBN: 2212123914 | 2008 | 673 pages | PDF | 13.1 MB</b>
Adieu, soupes de balises et combinaisons de Javascript propriétaires qui polluaient le Web 1.0 ! Place à des applications accessibles et ergonomiques, des scripts portables et du balisage sémantique : créer des interfaces bluffantes et interactives à la Web 2.0 (Gmail, Google Maps, Flickr, Netvibes...) est l'occasion d'instaurer de bonnes pratiques de développement - pour travailler mieux, plus vite, et dans le respect des normes. Une bible des meilleures pratiques de développement Web 2.0. Christophe Porteneuve livre dans cet ouvrage plus de dix années d'expérience en développement et en qualité web. Il rappelle les fondamentaux techniques du Web 2.0 (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM...), décrit l'usage des frameworks de développement dédiés Prototype et script.aculo.us dans leur version la plus récente, et explore le cœur d'Ajax, XMLHttpRequest, ainsi que la question des contenus et services externes (services web, API REST et flux de syndication RSS et Atom).

ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial
400 pages | Packt Publishing (July 2, 2008) | 1847194125 | PDF | 12 Mb</b>
Adobe ColdFusion is an application server, renowned for rapid development of dynamic websites, with a straightforward language (CFML), powerful methods for packaging and reusing your code, and AJAX support that will get developers deep into powerful web applications quickly.
This book is the most intense guide to creating professional ColdFusion applications available. Packed with example code, and written in a friendly, easy-to-read style, this book is just want you need if you are serious about ColdFusion.

Refactoring in Ruby
Addison-Wesley Professional | 288 pages | ISBN: 0321545044 | 2009 | PDF | 1.7 MB</b>
Refactoring in Ruby gives you all the realistic, hands-on practice you need to refactor Ruby code quickly and effectively. You’ll discover how to recognize “code smells,” which signal opportunities for improvement, and then perfect your program’s design one small, safe step at a time.

Jay Fields, "Refactoring: Ruby Edition"
Addison-Wesley Professional | 2009 | ISBN: 0321603508 | 480 pages | PDF | 1 MB</b>
With refactoring, programmers can transform even the most chaotic software into well-designed systems that are far easier to evolve and maintain. What’s more, they can do it one step at a time, through a series of simple, proven steps. Now, there’s an authoritative and extensively updated version of Martin Fowler’s classic refactoring book that utilizes Ruby examples and idioms throughout–not code adapted from Java or any other environment.
The authors introduce a detailed catalog of more than 70 proven Ruby refactorings, with specific guidance on when to apply each of them, step-by-step instructions for using them, and example code illustrating how they work. Many of the authors’ refactorings use powerful Ruby-specific features, and all code samples are available for download.

Learning Rails
O'Reilly Media, Inc. | ISBN 0596518773 | 2008-11-28 | 442 pages | PDF | 5.8 MB</b>
While most books written about Rails cater to programmers looking for information on data structures, "Learning Rails" targets web developers whose programming experience is tied directly to the Web. Rather than begin with the inner layers of a Rails web application--the models and controllers--this unique book approaches Rails development from the outer layer: the application interface. You'll learn how to create something visible with Rails before reaching the more difficult database models and controller code. With "Learning Rails," you can start from the foundations of web design you already know, and then move more deeply into Ruby, objects, and database structures. This book will help you: Present web content by building an application with a basic view and a simple controller, while learning Ruby along the way Build forms and process their results, progressing from the simple to the more complex Connect forms to models by setting up a database, and use Rails' ActiveRecord to create code that maps to database structures Use Rails scaffolding to build applications from a view-centric perspective Add common web application elements such as sessions, cookies, and authentication Build applications that combine data from multiple tables Create simple but dynamic interfaces with Rails and Ajax

Michael Mangino,"Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails
Pragmatic (10-2008) | PDF | 196 pages | ISBN:1934356123 | 3.76Mb(rar)</center>Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails leads you through the steps necessary to build your first application. You'll get hands-on experience with Facebook technologies such as FBML and FQL, and master messaging and news feeds.

Lyle Johnson, "FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby"
Pragmatic Bookshelf | ISBN: 1934356077 | 2008-04-04 | 228 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB</b>
FXRuby is a highly object-oriented toolkit for building lean, mean, cross-platform graphical user interfaces in Ruby. Since its initial release in 2001, FXRuby has become one of the most popular GUI choices for Ruby developers. This book is your best resource for rapidly learning how to develop powerful, sophisticated GUIs in your favorite programming language.

Maik Schmidt , "Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails"
Pragmatic Bookshelf | ISBN: 1934356239 | 2008 | 425 pages | PDF | 5 MB</b>
Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails helps you to overcome typical obstacles hidden in every enterprise's infrastructure. It doesn't matter if your Rails application needs to access your company's message-oriented middleware or if it has to scan through tons of huge XML documents to get a missing piece of data. Ruby and Rails enable you to create solutions that are both elegant and efficient.
With more than 50 concise, targeted recipes, this book shows you how to use existing infrastructure to develop effectively for the enterprise. For example, Ruby is an excellent language for manipulating both textual and binary data. This is enormously useful, because typical enterprise software is about storing and processing huge amounts of data. You'll learn how to process data in various popular data formats such as XML, CSV, fixed length records, and JSON.

Phil Ballard, "Sams Teach Yourself AJAX in 10 Minutes"
Sams | ISBN: 0672328682 | 2006 | 240 pages | CHM | 2.4 MB</b>
Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes is a concise introduction to the basics of building Ajax applications and the architecture and operation of these applications. You will learn the techniques employed in using Ajax, introducing Ajax and explaining how it may be used to solve realistic user interface problems. You will be able to immediately begin building web applications, and will have platform from which to explore more advanced aspects of Ajax.