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The Ruby programming language Includes index. - "Covers Ruby 1.8 and 1.9"--Cover by Flanagan, David; Matsumoto, Yukihiro is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
__The Ruby Programming Language__ is __the__ authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: * David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including __JavaScript: The Definitive Guide__ and __Java in a Nutshell__) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository. * Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of __Ruby in a Nutshell__, which has been expanded and revised to become this book. * why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire. This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules. The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is de
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- Author
- Flanagan, David; Matsumoto, Yukihiro
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media, Inc.; O'Reilly
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780596554651
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Engineering, Computer Science