Ruby Programming Language

by Matsumoto, Yukihiro

• ISBN13: 9780596002145
• ISBN10: 0596002149
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Written by Yukihiro Matsumoto (""Matz""), creator of the language, Ruby in a Nutshell is a practical reference guide covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class libraries. The book is based on Ruby 1.6, and is applicable to development versions 1.7 and the next planned stable version 1.8. As part of the successful ""in a Nutshell"" series of books from O'reilly & Associates, Ruby in a Nutshell is for readers who want a single desktop reference for all their needs.

Author Biography

Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matz is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He's released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside of Japan.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Ruby's Elegance	1	(2)
Ruby in Action	3	(2)
Language Basics	5	(31)
Command-Line Options	5	(2)
Environment Variables	7	(1)
Lexical Conventions	8	(1)
Literals	9	(6)
Variables	15	(2)
Operators	17	(3)
Methods	20	(5)
Control Structures	25	(4)
Object-Oriented Programming	29	(4)
Security	33	(3)
Built-in Library Reference	36	(74)
Predefined Variables	36	(2)
Predefined Global Constants	38	(1)
Built-in Functions	39	(8)
Built-in Library	47	(63)
Standard Library Reference	110	(56)
Standard Library	110	(56)
Ruby Tools	166	(10)
Standard Tools	166	(7)
Additional Tools	173	(1)
Ruby Application Archive	174	(2)
Ruby Updates	176	(5)
Summary of Changes	176	(2)
The Future of Ruby	178	(1)
Participate in Ruby	179	(2)
Index	181