The well-grounded Rubyist
The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes you from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get your first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Greenwich, Conn.
Manning
2009
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Ruby Foundations
- 1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
- 2. Objects, methods, and local variables
- 3. Organizing objects with classes
- 4. Modules and program organization
- 5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility
- 6. Control-flow techniques
- pt. 2. Built-In Classes and Modules
- 7. Built-in essentials
- 8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
- 9. Collection and container objects
- 10. Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
- 11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
- 12. File, I/O, and system operations
- pt. 3. Ruby Dynamics
- 13. Object individuation
- 14. Callable and runnable objects
- 15. Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection