Chapter 5. Objects and Classes
Every Ruby object is the combination of a class pointer and an array of instance variables.
We learn early on that Ruby is an object-oriented language, descended from languages like Smalltalk and Simula. Every value is an object, and all Ruby programs consist of a set of objects and the messages sent between them. Typically, we learn about object-oriented programming by looking at how to use objects and what they can do: how they can group together data values and behavior related to those values; how each class should have a single responsibility or purpose; and how different classes can be related to each other through ...
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