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1 online resource (xi, 429 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; David Flanagan; Yukihiro Matsumoto; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 A Tour of Ruby; 1.1.1 Ruby Is Object-Oriented; 1.1.2 Blocks and Iterators; 1.1.3 Expressions and Operators in Ruby; 1.1.4 Methods; 1.1.5 Assignment; 1.1.6 Punctuation Suffixes and Prefixes; 1.1.7 Regexp and Range; 1.1.8 Classes and Modules; 1.1.9 Ruby Surprises; 1.2 Try Ruby; 1.2.1 The Ruby Interpreter; 1.2.2 Displaying Output; 1.2.3 Interactive Ruby with irb |
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1.2.4 Viewing Ruby Documentation with ri1.2.5 Ruby Package Management with gem; 1.2.6 More Ruby Tutorials; 1.2.7 Ruby Resources; 1.3 About This Book; 1.3.1 How to Read This Book; 1.4 A Sudoku Solver in Ruby; Chapter 2. The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs; 2.1 Lexical Structure; 2.1.1 Comments; 2.1.1.1 Embedded documents; 2.1.1.2 Documentation comments; 2.1.2 Literals; 2.1.3 Punctuation; 2.1.4 Identifiers; 2.1.4.1 Case sensitivity; 2.1.4.2 Unicode characters in identifiers; 2.1.4.3 Punctuation in identifiers; 2.1.5 Keywords; 2.1.6 Whitespace |
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2.1.6.1 Newlines as statement terminators2.1.6.2 Spaces and method invocations; 2.2 Syntactic Structure; 2.2.1 Block Structure in Ruby; 2.3 File Structure; 2.4 Program Encoding; 2.4.1 Specifying Program Encoding; 2.4.2 Source, External, and Internal Encodings; 2.5 Program Execution; Chapter 3. Datatypes and Objects; 3.1 Numbers; 3.1.1 Integer Literals; 3.1.2 Floating-Point Literals; 3.1.3 Arithmetic in Ruby; 3.1.4 Binary Floating-Point and Rounding Errors; 3.2 Text; 3.2.1 String Literals; 3.2.1.1 Single-quoted string literals; 3.2.1.2 Double-quoted string literals |
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3.2.1.3 Unicode escapes3.2.1.4 Arbitrary delimiters for string literals; 3.2.1.5 Here documents; 3.2.1.6 Backtick command execution; 3.2.1.7 String literals and mutability; 3.2.1.8 The String.new method; 3.2.2 Character Literals; 3.2.3 String Operators; 3.2.4 Accessing Characters and Substrings; 3.2.5 Iterating Strings; 3.2.6 String Encodings and Multibyte Characters; 3.2.6.1 Multibyte characters in Ruby 1.9; 3.2.6.2 The Encoding class; 3.2.6.3 Multibyte characters in Ruby 1.8; 3.3 Arrays; 3.4 Hashes; 3.4.1 Hash Literals; 3.4.2 Hash Codes, Equality, and Mutable Keys |
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3.5 Ranges3.5.1 Testing Membership in a Range; 3.6 Symbols; 3.7 True, False, and Nil; 3.8 Objects; 3.8.1 Object References; 3.8.1.1 Immediate values; 3.8.2 Object Lifetime; 3.8.3 Object Identity; 3.8.4 Object Class and Object Type; 3.8.5 Object Equality; 3.8.5.1 The equal? method; 3.8.5.2 The == operator; 3.8.5.3 The eql? method; 3.8.5.4 The === operator; 3.8.5.5 The =̃ operator; 3.8.6 Object Order; 3.8.7 Object Conversion; 3.8.7.1 Explicit conversions; 3.8.7.2 Implicit conversions; 3.8.7.3 Conversion functions; 3.8.7.4 Arithmetic operator type coercions |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Ruby (Computer program language)
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Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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Ruby (Computer program language)
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Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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Object-oriented programming (Computer science)
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Ruby (Computer program language)
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Ruby (programspråk)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Matsumoto, Yukihiro.
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| ISBN |
9780596516178 |
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0596516177 |
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9780596520168 |
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0596520166 |
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9780596554651 |
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0596554656 |
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