Chapter 3. Scripting with Ruby
This chapter covers
- Reading and writing CSV data
- Generating daily reports
- Producing a comparison report
- Generating customized printable reports
One of the greatest assets of Ruby is its ability to scale small. As a software developer, you have learned about the difficulties of scaling large: applications with millions of lines of code, handling terabytes of data and serving billions of hits a day, taking advantage of multicore architectures and server farms. The rest of this book is about working with big services: messaging, web services, databases, and so on. Scaling up and scaling out are tough challenges that excite the imagination, but they’re not all that software can do for you. We thought it would be prudent ...
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