Ruby Hacking Guide
The RHG is a book that explains how the ruby 1.7.x-1.8.x interpreter (the official C implementation of the Ruby language) works internally. The original book was based on the source code of ruby 1.7.3 so there are a few small differences to the current version of ruby. However, these differences may make the source code simpler to understand and the Ruby Hacking Guide is a good starting point before looking into the ruby source code. The version of the source code used can be downloaded here: http://i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/ar/ruby-rhg.tar.gz.
This project is picking up from where Vincent Isambart and Clifford Escobar have left off [1], with the aim to translate the outstanding chapters to English to help Ruby hackers understand the internals of the MRI interpreter.
Note also the existence of this translation: http://hawthorne-press.com
Table of Contents
Part 1: Objects
- Chapter 1: Ruby language minimum
- Chapter 2: Objects
- Chapter 3: Names and name tables
- Chapter 4: Classes and modules
- Chapter 5: Garbage collection
- Chapter 6: Variables and constants
- Chapter 7: Security
Part 2: Syntax analysis
- Chapter 8: Ruby language details
- Chapter 9: Yacc crash course
- Chapter 10: Parser
- Chapter 11: Context-dependent scanner
- Chapter 12: Syntax tree construction
Part 3: Evaluation
- Chapter 13: Structure of the evaluator
- Chapter 14: Context
- Chapter 15: Methods
- Chapter 16: Blocks
- Chapter 17: Dynamic evaluation