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The Ruby programming language / David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flanagan, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Object-oriented programming (Computer science).
- Ruby (Computer program language).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2008.
- Beijing : O'Reilly, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 an
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A Tour of Ruby
- Try Ruby
- About This Book
- A Sudoku Solver in Ruby
- The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs
- Lexical Structure
- Syntactic Structure
- File Structure
- Program Encoding
- Program Execution
- Datatypes and Objects
- Numbers
- Text
- Arrays
- Hashes
- Ranges
- Symbols
- True, False, and Nil
- Objects
- Expressions and Operators
- Literals and Keyword Literals
- Variable References
- Constant References
- Method Invocations
- Assignments
- Operators
- Statements and Control Structures
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Iterators and Enumerable Objects
- Blocks
- Altering Control Flow
- Exceptions and Exception Handling
- BEGIN and END
- Threads, Fibers, and Continuations
- Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures
- Defining Simple Methods
- Method Names
- Methods and Parentheses
- Method Arguments
- Procs and Lambdas
- Closures
- Method Objects
- Functional Programming
- Classes and Modules
- Defining a Simple Class
- Method Visibility: Public, Protected, Private
- Subclassing and Inheritance
- Object Creation and Initialization
- Modules
- Loading and Requiring Modules
- Singleton Methods and the Eigenclass
- Method Lookup
- Constant Lookup
- Reflection and Metaprogramming
- Types, Classes, and Modules
- Evaluating Strings and Blocks
- Variables and Constants
- Methods
- Hooks
- Tracing
- ObjectSpace and GC
- Custom Control Structures
- Missing Methods and Missing Constants
- Dynamically Creating Methods
- Alias Chaining
- Domain-Specific Languages
- The Ruby Platform
- Strings
- Regular Expressions
- Numbers and Math
- Dates and Times
- Collections
- Files and Directories
- Input/Output
- Networking
- Threads and Concurrency
- The Ruby Environment
- Invoking the Ruby Interpreter
- The Top-Level Environment
- Practical Extraction and Reporting Shortcuts
- Calling the OS
- Security.
- Notes:
- "Covers Ruby 1.8 and 1.9"--Cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780596520168
- 0596520166
- OCLC:
- 213482830
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