Part 1 Ruby techniques

1 Ruby under the microscope: 1.1 Why Ruby now?; 1.2 Ruby by example; 1.3 Facets of Ruby; 1.4 Metaprogramming; 1.5 Summary
2 Testing Ruby: 2.1 Testing principles; 2.2 Test-driven development with Ruby; 2.3 Behavior-driven development with RSpec; 2.4 A testing environment; 2.5 Testing your tests; 2.6 Summary
3 Scripting with Ruby: 3.1 Scripting with Ruby; 3.2 Automating with OLE and OSA; 3.3 Using Rake; 3.4 Summary

Part 2 Integration and communication

4 Ruby on Rails techniques: 4.1 Extending Rails; 4.2 Rails performance; 4.3 Summary
5 Web services: 5.1 Using HTTP; 5.2 REST with Rails; 5.3 SOAP services; 5.4 Summary
6 Automating communication: 6.1 Automating email; 6.2 Automating instant communication; 6.3 Summary
7 Asynchronous messaging: 7.1 Open source messaging servers; 7.2 WebSphere MQ; 7.3 Summary
8 Deployment: 8.1 Creating deployable packages with RubyGems; 8.2 Deploying web applications; 8.3 Monitoring with God.rb; 8.4 Summary

9 Database facilities and techniques: 9.1 Using plain-text files for data persistence; 9.2 Using the (g)dbm API; 9.3 The MySQL driver; 9.4 Using DBI; 9.5 Summary
10 Structured documents: 10.1 XML in practice; 10.2 Parsing HTML and XHTML with Hpricot; 10.3 Writing configuration data: revisited; 10.4 Reading RSS feeds; 10.5 Creating your own feed; 10.6 Using YAML for data storage; 10.7 Summary
11 Identity and authentication: 11.1 Securely storing a password; 11.2 Authenticating against Active Directory; 11.3 Adding authentication to your Rails application; 11.4 Semi-private, personalized feeds; 11.5 HTTP Basic Authentication; 11.6 Integrating OpenID into your application; 11.7 Summary
12 Searching and indexing: 12.1 The principles of searching; 12.2 Standalone and high-performance searching; 12.3 Integrating search with other technologies; 12.4 Summary
13 Document processing and reporting: 13.1 Processing CSV data; 13.2 Generating and emailing daily reports; 13.3 Comparing text reports to well-formed data; 13.4 Creating customized documents for printing; 13.5 Reporting against large datasets; 13.6 Summary