Ruby in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference

Name: Ruby in a Nutshell A Desktop Quick Reference
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ISBN: 9780596002145

ISBN-10: 0596002149

ISBN-13: 9780596002145

Edition: 2002

Authors: Yukihiro Matsumoto, David L. Reynolds

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Ruby is an absolutely pure object-oriented scripting language written in C and designed with Perl and Python capabilities in mind. While its roots are in Japan, Ruby is slowly but surely gaining ground in the US. The goal of Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of Ruby and author of this book, is to incorporate the strengths of languages like Perl, Python, Lisp and Smalltalk. Ruby is a genuine attempt to combine the best of everything in the scripting world. Since 1993, Ruby mailing lists have been established, Web pages have formed, and a community has grown around it. The language itself is very good at text processing and is notable for its broad object orientation. Ruby is portable and runs…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.21" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

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.



Preface



Introduction


Ruby's Elegance


Ruby in Action



Language Basics


Command-Line Options


Environment Variables


Lexical Conventions


Literals


Variables


Operators


Methods


Control Structures


Object-Oriented Programming


Security



Built-in Library Reference


Predefined Variables


Predefined Global Constants


Built-in Functions


Built-in Library



Standard Library Reference


Standard Library



Ruby Tools


Standard Tools


Additional Tools


Ruby Application Archive



Ruby Updates


Summary of Changes


The Future of Ruby


Participate in Ruby


Index