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Ruby has taken the programming world by storm. With the slow decline of Java and the catalyst of Rails, it has risen to become one of the most popular programming languages, rising to #10 on the TIOBE index and winning their "Programming Language of the Year" award.
Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is a book about this fine language, but it is not a language book per se. It is perhaps best described as a mix between your favorite novel, your favorite Spanish textbook, and a Richard Simmons exercise video: it walks you through the very basics of working with Ruby, but by the end of it, you'll no doubt be
sweatin' it to the oldies. It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
Expect this book to rock your world. Or at least teach you a programming language.
144 pages, 6"x9"
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Table of contents
Welcome to Ruby
- Basic Concepts of Ruby
- Types in Ruby
- Collections
- Variables and the Like
Break it down now!
- Methods
- Blocks and Proc Objects
- Modules
- Files
Hustle and flow (control)
- Conditionals
- Loops
- Exceptions
The System Beneath
- Filesystem Interaction
- Threads and Forks and Processesv
- Environment variables, command line
- Win32 and Beyondv
Looking Beyond Home
- Networking and the Web
- It's Like Distributed or Something...
- Data my base, please!
It's a Library!
- String Manipulation
- Date/Time
- Hashing and Cryptography
- Unit testing
Appendix ALinks and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++