Table of Contents

Introduction.- You Too Can Make Bad Techno: Making Music with Ruby.- Animating Ruby.- Making Change: Simulation in Ruby.- Who's Turn is it Anyways? Building a Turn Based Strategy Game.- Making Beautiful UIs with RubyCocoa.- Only the Bad Die Young: Genetic Algorithms in Ruby.- The Building Blocks of Life: Manipulating DNA in Ruby.- Sister Languages: Implementing Lisp in Ruby.- File Formats and DSLs: Parsing with Ruby.

About the Author

Topher Cyll is a software engineer and writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Williams College and works for a small Boston-area startup. In reverse alphabetical order, he finds programming languages, music, free software, education, bioengineering, and beer terribly exciting. Topher loves Ruby not only for the language itself, but also the light-hearted and intellectually curious community that surrounds it.