The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) - page 1
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- Ruby Way
- Ruby Way
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think
- Introduction
- How This Book Works
- What Is the Ruby Way?
- Chapter1. Ruby in Review
- Some Words on Object Orientation
- Basic Ruby Syntax and Semantics
- OOP in Ruby
- Dynamic Aspects of Ruby
- Training Your Intuition: Things to Remember
- Chapter2. Simple Data Tasks
- Strings
- Regular Expressions
- Numbers
- Times and Dates
- Summary
- Chapter3. Manipulating Structured Data
- Working with Arrays
- Working with Hashes
- Working with Stacks and Queues
- Working with Trees
- Working with Graphs
- Summary
- Chapter4. External Data Manipulation
- Working with Files and Directories
- Performing Higher-Level Data Access
- Connecting to External Databases
- Summary
- Chapter5. OOP and Dynamicity in Ruby
- Everyday OOP Tasks
- More Advanced Techniques
- Working in Advanced Programming Disciplines
- Summary
- Chapter6. Graphical Interfaces for Ruby
- RubyTk
- RubyGTK
- FXRuby (FOX)
- Other GUIs
- Summary
- Chapter7. Ruby Threads
- Creating and Manipulating Threads
- Synchronizing Threads
- Summary
- Chapter8. Scripting and System Administration
- Running External Programs
- Command-Line Options and Arguments
- The Shell Library
- Accessing Environment Variables
- Scripting in Microsoft Windows
- Working with Files, Directories, and Trees
- Miscellaneous Scripting Tasks
- Summary
- Chapter9. Network and Web Programming
- Network Servers
- Network Clients
- Ruby and the Web Server
- Ruby and CGI Programming
- Distributed Ruby
- XML Parsing in Ruby
- Summary
- appendixA. From Perl to Ruby
- Ruby One-Liners
- Another Code Example
- More Examples
- Modules, Etc.
- Miscellaneous
- appendixB. From Python to Ruby
- A Different World View
- A Different Program Model
- Some Syntax Differences
- Keywords
- Variable Prefixes
- Objects
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