Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide

✍ Scribed by David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

• Publisher: addison-wesley
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

(Pearson Education) A guide to working with the object-oriented programming language, Ruby, which allows for programming without extra syntax or code. Shows how to easily mine the Ruby language, teaching the basics, plus how to write large programs, how to extend Ruby using C code, and more. Softcover. DLC: Object-oriented programming (Computer Science).

✦ Table of Contents

Programming Ruby......Page 0
Table of Contents......Page 1
Foreword......Page 3
Preface......Page 5
Roadmap......Page 13
Ruby.new......Page 15
Classes, Objects, and Variables......Page 27
Containers, Blocks, and Iterators......Page 53
Standard Types......Page 78
More About Methods......Page 116
Expressions......Page 143
Exceptions, Catch, and Throw......Page 162
Modules......Page 183
Basic Input and Output......Page 191
Threads and Processes......Page 197
When Trouble Strikes......Page 202
Ruby and Its World......Page 223
Ruby and the Web......Page 238
Ruby Tk......Page 247
Ruby and Microsoft Windows......Page 258
Extending Ruby......Page 263
The Ruby Language......Page 289
Classes and Objects......Page 328
Locking Ruby in the Safe......Page 354
Reflection, ObjectSpace, and Distributed Ruby......Page 360
Built-in Classes and Methods......Page 375
Standard Library - class Complex......Page 383
class Array......Page 38
class Bignum......Page 409
class Binding......Page 412
class Class......Page 351
class Continuation......Page 414
class Dir......Page 416
class Exception......Page 422
class FalseClass......Page 425
class File......Page 70
class File::Stat......Page 427
class Fixnum......Page 433
class Float......Page 436
class Hash......Page 229
class Integer......Page 439
class IO......Page 169
class MatchData......Page 442
class Method......Page 379
class Module......Page 341
class NilClass......Page 445
class Numeric......Page 447
class Object......Page 63
class Proc......Page 113
class Range......Page 450
class Regexp......Page 139
class String......Page 123
class Struct......Page 454
class Struct::Tms......Page 458
class Symbol......Page 459
class Thread......Page 210
class ThreadGroup......Page 461
class Time......Page 463
class TrueClass......Page 472
module Comparable......Page 474
module Enumerable......Page 476
module Errno......Page 480
module FileTest......Page 481
module GC......Page 485
module Kernel......Page 97
module Marshal......Page 381
module Math......Page 487
module ObjectSpace......Page 358
module Process......Page 218
Object-Oriented Design Libraries......Page 489
Network and Web Libraries......Page 495
Microsoft Windows Support......Page 527
Embedded Documentation......Page 533
Interactive Ruby Shell......Page 538
Support......Page 547