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Acquaints you with some of the essentials of Rails, and includes a short Rails tutorial.Įach chapter concludes with a set of review questions, and appendices provide you with a glossary of terms related to Ruby programming, plus reference material from the book in one convenient location.

Introduces processing XML, the Tk toolkit, RubyGems, reflection, RDoc, embedded Ruby, metaprogramming, exception handling, and other topics.

Discusses Ruby classes and modules (mixins) in detail, including a brief introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP).

Explains how to process files with Ruby.

Talks you through Ruby arrays, and demonstrates hashes in detail.

Describes how to use operators, basic math, functions from the Math module, rational numbers, etc.

Includes a section on regular expressions

Demonstrates how to use conditionals, and how to manipulate strings in Ruby.

Outlines many of the most important features of Ruby.The best way to learn is to just try the code! You'll find examples on nearly every page of this book that you can imitate and hack.

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