- The Book of Ruby
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Strings, Numbers, Classes, and Objects
- 2. Class Hierarchies, Attributes, and Class Variables
- 3. Strings and Ranges
- 4. Arrays and Hashes
- 5. Loops and Iterators
- 6. Conditional Statements
- 7. Methods
- 8. Passing Arguments and Returning Values
- Summarizing Instance, Class, and Singleton Methods
- Returning Values
- Returning Multiple Values
- Default and Multiple Arguments
- Assignment and Parameter Passing
- Integers Are Special
- The One-Way-In, One-Way-Out Principle
- Modifying Receivers and Yielding New Objects
- Potential Side Effects of Reliance on Argument Values
- Parallel Assignment
- 9. Exception Handling
- 10. Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas
- 11. Symbols
- 12. Modules and Mixins
- 13. Files and IO
- 14. YAML
- 15. Marshal
- 16. Regular Expressions
- 17. Threads
- 18. Debugging and Testing
- 19. Ruby on Rails
- 20. Dynamic Programming
- A. Documenting Ruby with RDoc
- B. Installing MySQL for Ruby on Rails
- C. Further Reading
- D. Ruby and Rails Development Software
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- E. Updates
About the Author
Huw Collingbourne is the Director of Technology for SapphireSteel Software, developer of the Ruby In Steel IDE. With 30 years of programming experience, he has written programming columns for numerous magazines, presented features on computing for BBC Television, and currently edits the online technical journal Bitwise Magazine. He has previously released two free ebooks on Ruby—The Little Book of Ruby and The Book of Ruby.
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