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                         The Ruby Programming Language

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The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides

comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written

(and illustrated!) by an all-star team: David Flanagan, bestselling author of

programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and

Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. Yukihiro

"Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of

Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. why

the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins

with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in

detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to

expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures,

classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to

the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented

example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation,

collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is

devoted to Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities. The Ruby Programming Language

documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language

specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby,

and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and

increase their mastery of the language.



Table Of Contents



Copyright

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs

Chapter 3. Datatypes and Objects

Chapter 4. Expressions and Operators

Chapter 5. Statements and Control Structures

Chapter 6. Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures

Chapter 7. Classes and Modules

Chapter 8. Reflection and Metaprogramming

Chapter 9. The Ruby Platform

Chapter 10. The Ruby Environment

Index



Product Details



    * ISBN: 0596516177

    * ISBN-13: 9780596516178

    * Format: Paperback, 444pp

    * Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

    * Pub. Date: January 2008



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