The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for the Second Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the authors

About the cover illustration

1. Ruby foundations

Chapter 1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy

1.1. Basic Ruby language literacy

1.1.1. Installing Ruby and using a text editor

1.1.2. A Ruby syntax survival kit

1.1.3. The variety of Ruby identifiers

1.1.4. Method calls, messages, and Ruby objects

1.1.5. Writing and saving a simple program

1.1.6. Feeding the program to Ruby

1.1.7. Keyboard and file I/O

1.2. Anatomy of the Ruby installation

1.2.1. The Ruby standard library subdirectory (RbConfig::CONFIG[“rubylibdir”])

1.2.2. The C extensions directory (RbConfig::CONFIG[“archdir”])

1.2.3. ...