Ferret.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

9780596519407

Ferret.

Balmain, David.

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

2008

100 pages

$24.99

Paperback

QA76.64

Balmain, one of the primary developers of the Ferret search library software, has written this software guide to introduce Ruby programmers to all of the features. Along with the companion website, this slim yet concise book shows how to download various Ruby codes for Ferret API, and how to use these codes to file PDF, Microsoft Word and HTML files. The author's goal is to make the use of Ferret to search a hard drive as easy as using an Internet search engine to search the web, and while the chapters are tailored more toward experienced Ruby programmers, he succeeds.

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