Ruby Programming

SECOND
EDITION

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition
is a beautifully written tutorial that begins
with your first Ruby program and goes on to
explore sophisticated topics like callable
objects, reflection, and threading. The book
concentrates on the language, preparing you
to use Ruby in any way you choose. This
second edition includes coverage of new Ruby
features such as keyword arguments, lazy
enumerators, and Module#prepend, along
with updated information on new and changed
core classes and methods.

Whats Inside

Clear explanations of Ruby

concepts

Numerous simple examples

Updated for Ruby 2.1

Prepares you to use Ruby

anywhere for any purpose

` 649 /ISBN: 9789351198246 Pages: 536

Author:
David A. Black

SUMMARY
This is a good time for Ruby! It's powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your
code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And it's elegant, so creating applications, development
tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straight forward. With the long-awaited Ruby
2, an active development community, and countless libraries and productivity tools, Ruby has

come into its own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David A. Black is an internationally known Ruby developer, author, trainer,
speaker, event organizer, and founder of Ruby Central as well as a Lead
Consultant at Cyrus Innovation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1 RUBY FOUNDATIONS
1 Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
1.1 Basic Ruby language literacy
1.2 Anatomy of the Ruby installation
1.3 Ruby extensions and programming
libraries
1.4 Outofthebox Ruby tools and
applications
2 Objects, methods, and local variables
2.1 Talking to objects
2.2 Crafting an object: The behavior of a
ticket
2.3 The innate behaviors of an object
2.4 A close look at method arguments
2.5 Local variables and variable
assignment
3 Organizing objects with classes
3.1 Classes and instances
3.2 Instance variables and object state
3.3 Setter methods
3.4 Attributes and the attr_* method
family
3.5 Inheritance and the Ruby class
hierarchy
3.6 Classes as objects and message
receivers
3.7 Constants up close
3.8 Nature vs. nurture in Ruby objects
4 Modules and program organization
4.1 Basics of module creation and use
4.2 Modules, classes, and method
lookup
4.3 The method_missing method
4.4 Class/module design and naming
5 The default object (self), scope, and
visibility
5.1 Understanding self, the
current/default object
5.2 Determining scope
5.3 Deploying methodaccess rules
5.4 Writing and using toplevel methods
6 Controlflow techniques
6.1 Conditional code execution
6.2 Repeating actions with loops
6.3 Iterators and code blocks
6.4 Error handling and exceptions
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PART 2 BUILTIN CLASSES AND MODULES

7 Builtin essentials
7.1 Ruby's literal constructors
7.2 Recurrent syntactic sugar
7.3 Bang (!) methods and danger
7.4 Builtin and custom to_* (conversion)
methods
7.5 Boolean states, Boolean objects, and
nil
7.6 Comparing two objects
7.7 Inspecting object capabilities
8 Strings, symbols, and other scalar
objects
8.1 Working with strings
8.2 Symbols and their uses
8.3 Numerical objects
8.4 Times and dates
9 Collection and container objects
9.1 Arrays and hashes in comparison
9.2 Collection handling with arrays
9.3 Hashes
9.4 Ranges
9.5 Sets
10 Collections central: Enumerable and
Enumerator
10.1 Gaining enumerability through each
10.2 Enumerable Boolean queries
10.3 Enumerable searching and selecting
10.4 Elementwise enumerable
operations
10.5 Relatives of each
10.6 The map method
10.7 Strings as quasienumerables
10.8 Sorting enumerables
10.9 Enumerators and the next
dimension of enumerability
10.10 Enumerator semantics and uses
10.11 Enumerator method chaining
10.12 Lazy enumerators
11 Regular expressions and regexpbased
string operations
11.1 What are regular expressions?
11.2 Writing regular expressions
11.3 Building a pattern in a regular
expression

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11.4 Matching, substring captures, and

MatchData
11.5 Finetuning regular expressions
with quantifiers, anchors, and
modifiers
11.6 Converting strings and regular
expressions to each other
11.7 Common methods that use regular
expressions
12 File and I/O operations
12.1 How Ruby's I/O system is put
together
12.2 Basic file operations
12.3 Querying IO and File objects
12.4 Directory manipulation with the
Dir class
12.5 File tools from the standard library
PART 3 RUBY DYNAMICS
13 Object individuation
13.1 Where the singleton methods are:
The singleton class
13.2 Modifying Ruby's core classes and
modules
13.3 Basic Object as ancestor and class
14 Callable and runnable objects
14.1 Basic anonymous functions: The
Proc class
14.2 Creating functions with lambda
and >
14.3 Methods as objects
14.4 The eval family of methods
14.5 Parallel execution with threads
14.6 Issuing system commands from
inside Ruby programs
15 Callbacks, hooks, and runtime
introspection
15.1 Callbacks and hooks
15.2 Interpreting object capability
queries
15.3 Introspection of variables and
constants
15.4 Tracing execution
15.5 Callbacks and method inspection in
practice

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