Its popularity has grown rapidly in the five years since the first edition of this book. Ruby Way takes? How-to? Along the way, the author provides detailed commentary and explanations to aid your understanding. Coverage includes ? An overview of Ruby, explaining the principles and basic terminology ? Working with general I / O, files, and persistent objects ? Graphical interface in Ruby (Tk, GTK +, Fox, and Qt) ? Working with Ruby threads for lightweight multitasking ? Web development tools including Rails, Nitro, Wee, Iowa, and more ? Working with distributed Ruby, Rinda, and Ring ? Ruby development tools such as IDE, documentation tools, and much more The source code for the book can be downloaded from www.rubyhacker.com This Fulton has worked for more than 15 years with variousforms Unix, including AIX, Solaris, and Linux. He has two degrees in computer science from the University of Mississippi and taught computer science for four years before moving to Austin, Texas to work as a contractor variouscompanies, including IBM Austin. It currently works at Broadwing Communications in Austin, Texas, maintaining a large data warehouse and related telecom applications, working daily with C + +, Oracle, and, of course, Ruby.