| 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 devoted to
Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities.
The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language
definitively but without the formality of a language
specification. It is written for experienced programmers who
are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want
to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery
of the language.
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