Why's (poignant) Guide To Ruby - Contents

Contents

  1. About this book
  2. Kon'nichi wa, Ruby
  3. A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes): basic introduction to central Ruby concepts
  4. Floating Little Leaves of Code: evaluation and values, hashes and lists
  5. Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream: case/when, while/until, variable scope, blocks, methods, class definitions, class attributes, objects, modules, introspection in IRB, dup, self, rbconfig module
  6. Downtown: metaprogramming, regular expressions
  7. When You Wish Upon a Beard: send method, new methods in existing classes
  8. Heaven's Harp

The following chapters are "Expansion Paks":

  1. The Tiger's Vest (with a Basic Introduction to IRB): discusses IRB, the interactive Ruby interpreter.

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