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O'Reilly Pocket Reference
Ruby Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference
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.
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.
176 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2007
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April 4, 2009
The essence of the language distilled into it's ultimate daily reference. You can read this from cover to cover and learn the language if you are familiar with programming.
July 20, 2011
Best reference book for Ruby I have used, keep it beside me as I am coding.
June 13, 2014
it is awesome book ,very easy in explaining ruby , support with links and libraries needed for work
i use this book to dig deep again with the ruby language .
i use this book to dig deep again with the ruby language .
April 14, 2017
Really disappointing. It seems like this was a very lazy update of the first edition, and no effort was made to remove outdated content (other than just marking "deprecated" or "removed" under some apis).
It had mistakes (it went out of its way to mention that ruby hashes are not ordered, something that changed a few years ago), it was inconsistent, etc.
At the end the author just plainly gave up and started just listing the verbatim output of running some ruby tools with --help.
This is a really small book which can be checked in a few weeks end-to-end so it just seems like the author and O'Reilly really dropped the ball in reviewing and editing it properly.
Wish I could get my money back... buy any other ruby book out there!
It had mistakes (it went out of its way to mention that ruby hashes are not ordered, something that changed a few years ago), it was inconsistent, etc.
At the end the author just plainly gave up and started just listing the verbatim output of running some ruby tools with --help.
This is a really small book which can be checked in a few weeks end-to-end so it just seems like the author and O'Reilly really dropped the ball in reviewing and editing it properly.
Wish I could get my money back... buy any other ruby book out there!
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