The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition

11.1. Everyday OOP Tasks

Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,

Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch . . .

—William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 113”

If you don’t already understand OOP, you won’t learn it here. And if you don’t already understand OOP in Ruby, you probably won’t learn it here either. If you’re rusty on those concepts, you can scan Chapter 1, “Ruby in Review,” where we cover it rapidly (or you can go to another book).

On the other hand, much of this current chapter is tutorial oriented and fairly elementary. So it will be of some value to the beginner and perhaps less value to the intermediate Ruby programmer. We maintain that a book is a random access storage device so that you can easily skip the parts that don’t interest ...