OReilly.Ruby.Pocket.Reference.Jul.2007.eBook-BBL

TITLE : Ruby Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly)) (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Michael Fitzgerald (Author)
PUBLISHER : O'Reilly publisher
ISBN : 0596514816
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : July 18, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
FORMAT : PDF

Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you
may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or
the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear
explanations of Ruby's core components, from operators to reserved words
to data structures to method syntax, highlighting those key features
that you'll likely use every day when coding Ruby. Whether you've come
to Ruby because of the Rails web development framework --Ruby's killer
app -- or simply because it's a relatively clean, powerful and
expressive language that's useful for a lot of applications, the Ruby
Pocket Reference is organized to help you find what you need quickly.
This book not only will get you up to speed on how Ruby works, it
provides you with a handy reference you can use anywhere, anytime. In
this book, you find essential information on:

- Reserved words, operators, comments, numbers, variables, ranges, and
symbols
- Predefined variables andglobal constants
- Conditional statements, method use, classes, and modules (mixins)
- Lists of methods from the Object, String, Array, and Hash classes
and the Kernel module
- sprintf andtime formatting directories
- Interactive Ruby (irb) and the Ruby debugger
- Ruby documentation You also get information on the RubyGems package
utility and Rake, a build tool similar to make.. If you're using Ruby
daily and just want the facts-fast-Ruby Pocket Reference is your book.

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