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TITLE : Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by André Ben Hamou (Author)
PUBLISHER : Apress publisher
ISBN : 1590598210
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : June 25, 2007
LANGUAGE : English

Ruby has set the world on fire, proving itself a serious challenger to
Perl and Python in all spheres. In particular, more and more people are
discovering that Ruby’s flexibility, superb feature set, and gentle
learning curve make it a natural choice for system administration tasks,
from the humblest server to the largest enterprise deployment. Within
the pages of Practical Ruby for System Administration, you’ll learn the
Ruby way to construct files, tap into clouds of data, build
domain-specific languages, perform network traffic analysis, and more.
Based on author André Ben Hamou’s own experiences working as a system
administrator, this book will help you pick up practical tips on Ruby
coding style, learn how to analyze and improve script performance, and
make use of no-nonsense advice on scripting workflow, including testing
and documentation. Above all, you’ll come to appreciate the sheer power
of Ruby and the hundreds of benefits it offers for system
administration.

- This book places equal emphasis on fundamental Ruby concepts as well
as practical how-tos.
- It uses examples from other languages to ease the transition to
Ruby.
- The book is concise, entertaining, and informative–unlike many
books aimed at system administrators, which can be overly long and
stodgy.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590598210/