The Ruby Programming Language

by David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

Written by Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), creator of the language, Ruby in a Nutshell, Second Edition is a practical reference guide covering everything from Ruby syntax to the specifications of its standard class libraries. The book has been updated to cover Ruby 1.8. As part of the successful "in a Nutshell" series of books from O'Reilly Media, Ruby in a Nutshell is for readers who want a single desktop reference for all their programming needs.

Genres: Programming, Technology, Computer Science, Technical, Reference, Computers

304 pages, Paperback

First published November 13, 2001

About the author

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who has spent much of the last 20 years writing books about programming languages. He now works at Mozilla. David lives with his wife and children in the Pacific Northwest, between the cities of Seattle and Vancouver.

Reviews

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a great desk reference, but not something to rely on to learn Ruby.

[Ibrahim Mohamed · Rating 3 out of 5]

it is a good reference to ruby but it is not updated .support me a lot information how the built in ruby libraries .