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| Foreword to the First Edition | |
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| Foreword to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| Road Map | |
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| Facets of Ruby | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Installing Ruby | |
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| Running Ruby | |
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| Ruby Documentation: RDoc and ri | |
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| Ruby.new | |
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| Ruby Is an Object-Oriented Language | |
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| Some Basic Ruby | |
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| Arrays and Hashes | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Blocks and Iterators | |
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| Reading and 'Riting | |
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| Onward and Upward | |
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| Classes, Objects, and Variables | |
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| Inheritance and Messages | |
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| Objects and Attributes | |
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| Class Variables and Class Methods | |
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| Access Control | |
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| Variables | |
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| Containers, Blocks, and Iterators | |
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| Containers | |
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| Blocks and Iterators | |
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| Containers Everywhere | |
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| Standard Types | |
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| Numbers | |
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| Strings | |
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| Ranges | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| More about Methods | |
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| Defining a Method | |
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| Calling a Method | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Operator Expressions | |
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| Miscellaneous Expressions | |
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| Assignment | |
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| Conditional Execution | |
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| Case Expressions | |
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| Loops | |
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| Variable Scope, Loops, and Blocks | |
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| Exceptions, Catch, and Throw | |
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| The Exception Class | |
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| Handling Exceptions | |
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| Raising Exceptions | |
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| Catch and Throw | |
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| Modules | |
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| Namespaces | |
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| Mixins | |
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| Iterators and the Enumerable Module | |
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| Composing Modules | |
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| Including Other Files | |
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| Basic Input and Output | |
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| What Is an IO Object? | |
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| Opening and Closing Files | |
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| Reading and Writing Files | |
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| Talking to Networks | |
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| Threads and Processes | |
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| Multithreading | |
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| Controlling the Thread Scheduler | |
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| Mutual Exclusion | |
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| Running Multiple Processes | |
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| Unit Testing | |
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| Test::Unit Framework | |
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| Structuring Tests | |
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| Organizing and Running Tests | |
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| When Trouble Strikes | |
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| Ruby Debugger | |
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| Interactive Ruby | |
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| Editor Support | |
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| But It Doesn't Work! | |
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| But It's Too Slow! | |
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| Ruby in Its Setting | |
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| Ruby and Its World | |
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| Command-Line Arguments | |
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| Program Termination | |
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| Environment Variables | |
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| Where Ruby Finds Its Modules | |
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| Build Environment | |
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| Interactive Ruby Shell | |
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| Command Line | |
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| Configuration | |
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| Commands | |
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| Restrictions | |
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| Rtags and xmp | |
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| Documenting Ruby | |
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| Adding RDoc to Ruby Code | |
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| Adding RDoc to C Extensions | |
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| Running RDoc | |
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| Displaying Program Usage | |
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| Package Management with RubyGems | |
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| Installing RubyGems | |
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| Installing Application Gems | |
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| Installing and Using Gem Libraries | |
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| Creating Your Own Gems | |
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| Ruby and the Web | |
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| Writing CGI Scripts | |
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| Cookies | |
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| Improving Performance | |
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| Choice of Web Servers | |
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| SOAP and Web Services | |
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| More Information | |
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| Ruby TK | |
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| Simple TK Application | |
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| Widgets | |
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| Binding Events | |
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| Canvas | |
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| Scrolling | |
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| Translating from Perl/TK Documentation | |
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| Ruby and Microsoft Windows | |
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| Getting Ruby for Windows | |
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| Running Ruby Under Windows | |
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| Win32API | |
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| Windows Automation | |
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| Extending Ruby | |
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| Your First Extension | |
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| Ruby Objects in C | |
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| The Jukebox Extension | |
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| Memory Allocation | |
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| Ruby Type System | |
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| Creating an Extension | |
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| Embedding a Ruby Interpreter | |
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| Bridging Ruby to Other Languages | |
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| Ruby C Language API | |
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| Ruby Crystallized | |
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| The Ruby Language | |
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| Source Layout | |
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| The Basic Types | |
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| Names | |
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| Variables and Constants | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Method Definition | |
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| Invoking a Method | |
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| Aliasing | |
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| Class Definition | |
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| Module Definitions | |
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| Access Control | |
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| Blocks, Closures, and Proc Objects | |
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| Exceptions | |
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| Catch and Throw | |
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| Duck Typing | |
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| Classes Aren't Types | |
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| Coding like a Duck | |
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| Standard Protocols and Coercions | |
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| Walk the Walk, Talk the Talk | |
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| Classes and Objects | |
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| How Classes and Objects Interact | |
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| Class and Module Definitions | |
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| Top-Level Execution Environment | |
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| Inheritance and Visibility | |
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| Freezing Objects | |
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| Locking Ruby in the Safe | |
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| Safe Levels | |
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| Tainted Objects | |
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| Reflection, ObjectSpace, and Distributed Ruby | |
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| Looking at Objects | |
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| Looking at Classes | |
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| Calling Methods Dynamically | |
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| System Hooks | |
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| Tracing Your Program's Execution | |
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| Marshaling and Distributed Ruby | |
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| Compile Time? Runtime? Anytime! | |
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| Ruby Library Reference | |
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| Built-in Classes and Modules | |
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| Alphabetical Listing | |
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| Standard Library | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Socket Library | |
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| Mkmf Reference | |
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| Support | |
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| Web Sites | |
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| Download Sites | |
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| Usenet Newsgroup | |
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| Mailing Lists | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Summary Tables | |