Book description
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written and totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed.
About the Technology
This is a good time for Ruby! It's powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And it's elegant, so creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straightforward. With the long-awaited Ruby 2, an active development community, and countless libraries and productivity tools, Ruby has come into its own.
About the Book
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. The book concentrates on the language, preparing you to use Ruby in any way you choose. This second edition includes coverage of new Ruby features such as keyword arguments, lazy enumerators, and Module#prepend, along with updated information on new and changed core classes and methods.
What's Inside
- Clear explanations of Ruby concepts
- Numerous simple examples
- Updated for Ruby 2.1
- Prepares you to use Ruby anywhere for any purpose
About the Reader
About the Author
David A. Black is an internationally known Ruby developer, author, trainer, speaker, event organizer, and founder of Ruby Central, as well as a Lead Consultant at Cyrus Innovation.
Quotes
Once again, the definitive book on Ruby from David Black. A must-have!
- William Wheeler, TekSystems
All wheat, no chaff—takes you from Ruby programmer to full-fledged Rubyist.
- Doug Sparling, Andrews McMeel Universal
Provides powerful insights and digs into Ruby’s quirks. Revelatory.
- Ted Roche, Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
The best way to learn Ruby fundamentals.
- Derek Sivers, sivers.org
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Praise for the First Edition
- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Ruby foundations
- Part 2. Built-in classes and modules
- Part 3. Ruby dynamics
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2014
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617291692
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