The Well-Grounded Rubyist

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, David A.

Contributor:

Black, David A, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruby on rails (Electronic resource).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) : ill.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Manning Publications Company 2014

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. The book concentrates on the language, preparing you to use Ruby in any way you choose. This second edition includes coverage of new Ruby features such as keyword arguments, lazy enumerators, and Module#prepend, along with updated information on new and changed core classes and methods.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781617291692

1617291692

OCLC:

887736541