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.

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