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Four cool libraries for Ruby

Make better use of Ruby with RDoc, WEBrick, dRuby, and REXML

Pat Eyler (pat.eyler@gmail.com), Independent Author, Consultant
Pat Eyler is a co-founder of the Seattle Ruby Brigade (Zenspider.com) and has been an active member of the Ruby community for nearly five years. He founded the Ruby Programming Shop and currently maintains the r43 library. He has written about free software, Linux, Ruby, and networking for several print- and Web-based publishers.

Summary:  This tutorial presents four members of Ruby's standard library: RDoc, WEBrick, dRuby, and REXML. Learning to use the standard library more effectively will help improve your Ruby code and let you concentrate on the important parts of your code.

Date:  03 Jan 2006
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (53 KB | 16 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

The last several tutorials in this series ("Test-first Ruby programming," "Profiling and optimizing Ruby code," "Debugging Ruby programs 101," and "Automating tasks with Rake"), have discussed some important libraries from Ruby's standard library (and one, Rake, that appears headed for inclusion into the standard library). This tutorial will cover four important members of Ruby's standard library.

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This tutorial will get you up and running with these libraries: RDoc, WEBrick, dRuby, and REXML. You'll learn how, when, and why to use them.

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System requirements

Because we're covering four libraries from the Ruby standard library, you won't need anything more than Ruby installed on your system. You'll be able to complete this tutorial on any Microsoft® Windows® or UNIX®-like system (including Mac OS X and Linux®) that has Ruby installed.

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