The Ruby programming language /
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| Author / Creator: | Flanagan, David. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2008. |
| Description: | xi, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6825351 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. A Tour of Ruby
- 1.2. Try Ruby
- 1.3. About This Book
- 1.4. A Sudoku Solver in Ruby
- 2. The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs
- 2.1. Lexical Structure
- 2.2. Syntactic Structure
- 2.3. File Structure
- 2.4. Program Encoding
- 2.5. Program Execution
- 3. Datatypes and Objects
- 3.1. Numbers
- 3.2. Text
- 3.3. Arrays
- 3.4. Hashes
- 3.5. Ranges
- 3.6. Symbols
- 3.7. True, False, and Nil
- 3.8. Objects
- 4. Expressions and Operators
- 4.1. Literals and Keyword Literals
- 4.2. Variable References
- 4.3. Constant References
- 4.4. Method Invocations
- 4.5. Assignments
- 4.6. Operators
- 5. Statements and Control Structures
- 5.1. Conditionals
- 5.2. Loops
- 5.3. Iterators and Enumerable Objects
- 5.4. Blocks
- 5.5. Altering Control Flow
- 5.6. Exceptions and Exception Handling
- 5.7. BEGIN and END
- 5.8. Threads, Fibers, and Continuations
- 6. Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures
- 6.1. Defining Simple Methods
- 6.2. Method Names
- 6.3. Methods and Parentheses
- 6.4. Method Arguments
- 6.5. Procs and Lambdas
- 6.6. Closures
- 6.7. Method Objects
- 6.8. Functional Programming
- 7. Classes and Modules
- 7.1. Defining a Simple Class
- 7.2. Method Visibility: Public, Protected, Private
- 7.3. Subclassing and Inheritance
- 7.4. Object Creation and Initialization
- 7.5. Modules
- 7.6. Loading and Requiring Modules
- 7.7. Singleton Methods and the Eigenclass
- 7.8. Method Lookup
- 7.9. Constant Lookup
- 8. Reflection and Metaprogramming
- 8.1. Types, Classes, and Modules
- 8.2. Evaluating Strings and Blocks
- 8.3. Variables and Constants
- 8.4. Methods
- 8.5. Hooks
- 8.6. Tracing
- 8.7. ObjectSpace and GC
- 8.8. Custom Control Structures
- 8.9. Missing Methods and Missing Constants
- 8.10. Dynamically Creating Methods
- 8.11. Alias Chaining
- 8.12. Domain-Specific Languages
- 9. The Ruby Platform
- 9.1. Strings
- 9.2. Regular Expressions
- 9.3. Numbers and Math
- 9.4. Dates and Times
- 9.5. Collections
- 9.6. Files and Directories
- 9.7. Input/Output
- 9.8. Networking
- 9.9. Threads and Concurrency
- 10. The Ruby Environment
- 10.1. Invoking the Ruby Interpreter
- 10.2. The Top-Level Environment
- 10.3. Practical Extraction and Reporting Shortcuts
- 10.4. Calling the OS
- 10.5. Security
- Index
