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What is XML? The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language much like HTML or SGML. This is recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium and available as an…

Ruby provides two levels of access to network services. At a low level, you can access the basic socket support in the underlying operating system, which allows you to implement…

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a protocol, which handles sending e-mail and routing e-mail between mail servers. Ruby provides Net::SMTP class for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) client-side connection…

Ruby is a general-purpose language; it can't properly be called a web language at all. Even so, web applications and web tools in general are among the most common uses of Ruby.…

This chapter teaches you how to access a database using Ruby. The Ruby DBI module provides a database-independent interface for Ruby scripts similar to that of the Perl DBI module. DBI stands…

A regular expression is a special sequence of characters that helps you match or find other strings or sets of strings using a specialized syntax held in a pattern. A regular expression literal is…