Want to take Ruby to the limit? Looking for new, powerful, and creative ideas that will take Ruby beyond Rails and web programming? If youre comfortable with Ruby, youll be itching to go further--apply Practical Ruby Projects: Fresh Ideas with Ruby and become a master of advanced Ruby techniques.
Rubyist Topher Cyll brings several imaginative projects to this book, ranging from making generative music, animations, and turn-based games to implementing simulations, algorithms, and even an implementation of Lisp!
Art, music, theory, and games--this book has it all. Best of all, its all done with Ruby.
Each chapter, in addition to making you say Cool--I hadnt thought of that before, looks at solving tricky development problems, enforces best practices, and encourages creative thinking. Youll be building your own exciting, imaginative Ruby Projects in no time.
*Create imaginative and innovative Ruby programming projects.*Learn how to solve tricky development problems, be guided by best practices, and be inspired to think creatively.
*Dont waste time on the basics--its assumed you know the fundamentals of Ruby already.
What youll learn
*How to set up Ruby on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux
*How to create UIs with RubyCocoa
*How to create a Lisp implementation in Ruby
*How to create generative music and turn-based adventure games in Ruby
*How to model things and create algorithms in Ruby
*Several more Ruby best practices and programming techniques that will save you hours of programming time
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