Index[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] calculate method call stacks, determining callers in callcc method caller method, determining callers in call stacks canvas widgets (Ruby/Tk GUI) capitalize method, String class carets (^) ^ (XOR) operator, number bit-level operations character classes string parameters case equality operators (===) 2nd case limbs, case statements case statements 2nd break statements case limbs Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature conversion sample program relationship operators (===) then keyword casecmp method, String class cattr_reader method cattr_writer method center method, formatting strings Cerise CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programming Amrita Cerise cgi.rb library cookies HTML forms, displaying/processing ruby-web URL access user sessions cgi.rb library chained method calls chaining directories character classes, regex character sets, $KCODE global variable characters, grabbing from keyboard chardev? method check boxes, creating in QtRuby Ruby/GTK2 Ruby/Tk child classes [See derived classes.] children method chmod method file permissions strings chomp! Operations, Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature conversion sample program chop method, strings chr method, iterating files chroot method, changing root directories class attributes class instance variables 2nd class method 2nd class objects file ownership ThreadGroup.new, creating thread groups class variables class-level helper functions, defining class-level reader/writer attributes, automatically defining class_variables method, obtaining class variables lists classes abstract 2nd ancestor lists, obtaining child [See classes, derived.] Complex concrete type constant values, retrieving constructors data-only, creating Date cweek accessor interconverting between dates/time validating dates DateTime, interconverting between dates/time defining 2nd Deflate, string compression DelegateClass method derived eigenclasses False File atime method basename method binmode method chmod method class method compare method copy method ctime method delete method dirname method flock method install method join method link method move method mtime method new method open method path method putc method rename method rewind method safe_unlink method seek method split method truncate method umask method utime method Inflate, string compression inheritance 2nd instance variables instances versus instantiating, dynamically instantiating by name is-a relationships methods adding to associating creating declaring private methods lists, obtaining privatizing public methods lists, obtaining tracking additions Module 2nd modules including in lists of, obtaining names nesting objects classes, testing creating parametric, creating Pathname PGconn PGlarge, methods of PGresult, methods of private methods protected methods public methods Rational, numbers self pseudovariables SimpleDelegator SingleForwardable singletons SizedQueue, threads String capitalize method casecmp method downcase method swapcase method StringScanner Struct structure templates superclasses, inheriting from Time Comparable module interconverting between dates/time mktime method strftime method 2nd 3rd Time.at method Time.gm method Time.utc method to_a instance method wday instance method zone accessor tracking definition changes True variables @@ prefix creating lists of, obtaining classify method, mathematical sets classless OOP (object-oriented programming) clients, drb network contacting official timeservers encoding/decoding attachments IMAP server interaction mail-news gateways number generators Open-URL library peer-to-peer servers POP server interaction retrieving web pages from URLs sending email via SMTP clone method copying objects deep copying strings, calculating MD5 hashes close method, temporary files closures code coverage, measuring [See also OOP (object-oriented programming), classes, testing.] codepoints defining precomposed/decomposed forms table strings coding at runtime coerce method coercion [See also implicit conversions, numeric conversion.] collating strings colon (:) :include: tags :main: tags :nodoc: tags :notnew: tags :title: tags column_size method, matrices comma-delimited data, parsing strings command output strings, grave accents (`) command-line parameters, ARGV[0] parsing options commands, output substitution comments commit method, interrupting transactions Comparable module, comparing date/time values compare method, files comparing files comparison operators (<=>) 2nd compiler pipelines, Nitro Complex class complex numbers components IOWA, control transfer Wee compression, strings concatenating numbers to strings concrete type classes condition variables, threads conditional statements conferences (Ruby) config_key method const_get method dynamically instantiating classes by name retrieving module/class constant values const_missing method constants capturing globally defined constants lists, obtaining deleting examples of numeric values, changing constants (global) constants method, obtaining defined constants lists constructors 2nd continuations, implementing generators control structures branches looping break keyword examples of iterators Kernel module next keyword pretest loops redo keyword retry keyword until control structures while control structures yield keyword controller classes, Nitro converting [See also coerce method.] character encodings objects to arrays objects to printable representations objects to strings strings to arrays cookies, CGI programming copy method copying deep copies 2nd directory trees files objects shallow copies correlation coefficients count method, strings covector method coverage (code), measuring crc32 method, strings critical sections, synchronizing threads crypt method, string encryption CSV (comma-separated values) data format csv.rb module ctime method file time stamps formatting date/ time values curr_objdir method curr_srcdir method current method, finding thread identities current time, determining CUT (class under test), ZenTest tools cweek accessor, finding week of the year |