Ruby Programming

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Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented scripting language. Its creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a "Matz" released it to the public in 1995.

The book is currently broken down into several sections, and is intended to be read sequentially. Getting started will show how to install and get started with Ruby in your environment. Basic Ruby demonstrates the main features of the language syntax. The final section, Intermediate Ruby covers a selection of slightly more advanced topics. Each section is designed to be self contained. Finally, the Ruby language section is organized like a reference to the language.

Contents 1 Table of Contents 1.1 Getting started 1.2 Basic Ruby 1.3 Intermediate Ruby 1.4 Ruby reference 1.5 Modules 2 External links 2.1 Learning Ruby 2.1.1 Books 2.1.2 Quick Reference

[edit] Table of Contents

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[edit] Getting started

Overview

Installing Ruby

Ruby editors

Notation conventions

Interactive Ruby

[edit] Basic Ruby

Hello world

Strings

Alternate quotes

Here documents

ASCII

Introduction to objects

Ruby basics

Data types -- numbers, strings, hashes and arrays

Classes and objects

Writing methods

Exceptions

[edit] Intermediate Ruby

Unit testing

RubyDoc

RubyGems

[edit] Ruby reference

• Syntax
  • Lexicology
    • Identifiers
    • Comments
    • Embedded Documentation
    • Reserved Words
    • Expressions
  • Variables and Constants
    • Local Variables
    • Instance Variables
    • Class Variables
    • Global Variables
    • Constants
    • Pseudo Variables
    • Pre-defined Variables
  • Literals
    • Numerics
    • Strings
      • Interpolation
      • Backslash Notation
      • The % Notation
    • Command Expansion
    • Regular Expressions
    • Arrays
    • Hashes
    • Ranges
    • Symbols
  • Operators
    • Assignment
      • Self Assignment
      • Multiple Assignment
      • Conditional Assignment
    • Scope
    • and
    • or
    • not
  • Control Structures
    • Conditional Branches
      • if
        • if modifier
      • unless
        • unless modifier
      • case
    • Loops
      • while
        • while modifier
      • until
        • until modifier
      • for
        • for ... in
      • break
      • redo
      • next
      • retry
    • Exception Handling
      • raise
      • begin
        • rescue modifier
    • Miscellanea
      • return
      • returning
  • Methods
    • super
    • Iterators
    • yield
  • Classes
    • Class Definition
      • Instance Variables
      • Class Variables
      • Class Methods
      • Instantiation
    • Declaring Visibility
      • Private
      • Public
      • Protected
      • Instance Variables
    • Inheritance
    • Mixing in Modules
    • Ruby Class Meta-Model

• Reference
  • Built-in Functions
  • Predefined Variables
  • Predefined Classes
    • Object
      • Array
      • Class
      • Exception
      • FalseClass
      • IO
        • File
          • File::Stat
      • Method
      • Module
        • Class
      • NilClass
      • Numeric
        • Integer
          • Bignum
          • Fixnum
        • Float
      • Range
      • Regexp
      • String
      • Struct
        • Struct::Tms
      • Symbol
      • Time
      • TrueClass

[edit] Modules

• Database Interface Modules
• GUI Toolkit Modules
  • Tk
  • GTK2
  • Qt4
• XML Processing
  • REXML

[edit] External links

Wikipedia has related information at Ruby Programming Language.

• Ruby homepage
• Ruby Documentation Homepage
• Ruby-Talk: The Ruby Mailing List
• Ruby's Nitro/Og Web Toolkit
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby on Rails plugin directory
• RubyForge: The Repository for Open-source Ruby Projects
• Ruby Wizards Discussion Forum

[edit] Learning Ruby

• Free Online Ruby Programming Course
• Ruby Learning
• A Ruby Tutorial that Anyone can Edit

[edit] Books

• The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto aka "Matz", the creator of Ruby.
• Programming Ruby 3 (aka "Pickaxe") - this 2008 version covers Ruby 1.9
• Programming Ruby (a.k.a. 'Pickaxe Book') 1st edition online
• by Example
• Ruby Study Notes
• Why's (Poignant) Guide To Ruby
• Humble Little Ruby Book

[edit] Quick Reference

• Ruby Quick Reference (some of more obscure expressions are explained)
• Ruby Cheatsheet