This guide covers the following topic: What is ruby, Getting started,
Simple examples, Strings, Regular expressions, Arrays, Back to the simple
examples, Control structures, Iterators, Object-oriented thinking, Methods,
Classes, Inheritance, Redefinition of methods, Access control, Singleton
methods, Modules, Procedure objects, Variables, Global variables, Instance
variables, Local variables, Class constants, Exception processing: rescue,
Exception processing:ensure, Accessors, Object initialization and Nuts and
bolts.
This book is currently broken down into
several sections and is intended to be read sequentially. Topics covered
includes: Notation conventions, Basic Ruby, Ruby Semantic reference, Built in
Classes, Standard Library.
Ruby
is an easy to learn programming language. This book describes the fundamental
concepts and techniques in greater depth than traditional introductions.