The Ruby Programming Language

Everything You Need to Know

By: Davd Flanagan

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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.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Tour of Ruby	p. 2
Try Ruby	p. 11
About This Book	p. 15
A Sudoku Solver in Ruby	p. 17
The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs	p. 25
Lexical Structure	p. 26
Syntactic Structure	p. 33
File Structure	p. 35
Program Encoding	p. 36
Program Execution	p. 39
Datatypes and Objects	p. 41
Numbers	p. 42
Text	p. 46
Arrays	p. 64
Hashes	p. 67
Ranges	p. 68
Symbols	p. 71
True, False, and Nil	p. 72
Objects	p. 72
Expressions and Operators	p. 85
Literals and Keyword Literals	p. 86
Variable References	p. 87
Constant References	p. 88
Method Invocations	p. 89
Assignments	p. 92
Operators	p. 100
Statements and Control Structures	p. 117
Conditionals	p. 118
Loops	p. 127
Iterators and Enumerable Objects	p. 130
Blocks	p. 140
Altering Control Flow	p. 146
Exceptions and Exception Handling	p. 154
BEGIN and END	p. 165
Threads, Fibers, and Continuations	p. 166
Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures	p. 175
Defining Simple Methods	p. 177
Method Names	p. 180
Methods and Parentheses	p. 183
Method Arguments	p. 185
Procs and Lambdas	p. 192
Closures	p. 200
Method Objects	p. 203
Functional Programming	p. 205
Classes and Modules	p. 213
Defining a Simple Class	p. 214
Method Visibility: Public, Protected, Private	p. 232
Subclassing and Inheritance	p. 234
Object Creation and Initialization	p. 241
Modules	p. 247
Loading and Requiring Modules	p. 252
Singleton Methods and the Eigenclass	p. 257
Method Lookup	p. 258
Constant Lookup	p. 261
Reflection and Metaprogramming	p. 265
Types, Classes, and Modules	p. 266
Evaluating Strings and Blocks	p. 268
Variables and Constants	p. 271
Methods	p. 272
Hooks	p. 277
Tracing	p. 279
ObjectSpace and GC	p. 281
Custom Control Structures	p. 281
Missing Methods and Missing Constants	p. 284
Dynamically Creating Methods	p. 287
Alias Chaining	p. 290
Domain-Specific Languages	p. 296
The Ruby Platform	p. 303
Strings	p. 304
Regular Expressions	p. 310
Numbers and Math	p. 321
Dates and Times	p. 325
Collections	p. 328
Files and Directories	p. 350
Input/Output	p. 356
Networking	p. 366
Threads and Concurrency	p. 372
The Ruby Environment	p. 389
Invoking the Ruby Interpreter	p. 390
The Top-Level Environment	p. 394
Practical Extraction and Reporting Shortcuts	p. 403
Calling the OS	p. 405
Security	p. 409
Index	p. 413
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