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12. Tying It Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application

Peter Cooper

(1)Louth, Lincs, UK

In this chapter, we’re going to step back from focusing on individual facets of Ruby and develop an entire program using much of the knowledge you’ve gained so far. We’ll focus on the structural concerns of developing a program and look at how a flexible structure can benefit you and other developers in the long run.

The important thing to remember while working through this chapter is that the program itself is not as important as the concepts used while developing it. We’ll be rapidly (and relatively shallowly) covering a number of areas relevant to most development you’ll do, ...

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