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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book


Ruby has taken the programming world by storm. With the slow decline of Java and the catalyst of Rails, it has risen to become one of the most popular programming languages, rising to #10 on the TIOBE index and winning their "Programming Language of the Year" award.

Table of contents

1 Welcome to Ruby
Basic Concepts of Ruby
Types in Ruby
Collections
Variables and the Like

2 Break it down now!
Methods
Blocks and Proc Objects
Modules
Files

3 Hustle and flow (control)
Conditionals
Loops
Exceptions

4 The System Beneath
Filesystem Interaction
Threads and Forks and Processes
Environment variables, command line
Win32 and Beyond

5 Looking Beyond Home
Networking and the Web
It's Like Distributed or Something...
Data my base, please!

6 It's a Library!
String Manipulation
Date/Time
Hashing and Cryptography
Unit testing

Appendix A Links and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++

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