Hamou Practical Ruby For System Administration

Practical Ruby for System Administration......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 20 CHAPTER 1 What Ruby Can Do for You......Page 24 CHAPTER 2 Common Tasks, Quick Solutions......Page 38 CHAPTER 3 A Practical Look at Performance......Page 46 CHAPTER 4 The Power of Metaprogramming......Page 66 CHAPTER 5 Building Files the Smart Way......Page 80 CHAPTER 6 Object Storage and Retrieval......Page 96 CHAPTER 7 Working with Enterprise Data......Page 122 CHAPTER 8 Networking for Fun and Profit......Page 156 CHAPTER 9 Network Monitoring......Page 178 CHAPTER 10 Extending Ruby: A Fistful of Gems......Page 200 CHAPTER 11 Testing and Documentation......Page 216 CHAPTER 12 The Future of Ruby......Page 234 APPENDIX Ruby Execution......Page 242 INDEX......Page 248

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.

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, documentation, and version control.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 informativeunlike many books aimed at system administrators, which can be overly long and stodgy. 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. Coverage places equal emphasis on fundamental Ruby concepts as well as practical how-tos. Based on author Andr 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, documentation, and version control. "Ruby is a programming language that's taking the open source world by storm. It's similar to both Perl and Python in terms of its potential uses but books about Ruby have already overtaken both Perl and Python books in sales volume. This book is the first to describe using Ruby for general system administration tasks, which is a natural use of the language. It caters to a vast reader base of administrators who are taking tentative steps toward using Ruby in this way, or are considering making the move and would like to learn more. General ""Rubyists"" will also find it appealing." Provides information on using Ruby in system administration, covering such topics as building files, object storage and retrieval, working with enterprise data, network monitoring, and testing and documentation