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 Ruby user's guide Contents  

Ruby is "an easy object oriented language".  It may seem a little strange at first, but it is designed to be easily read and written.  This User's Guide will get you started at invoking and using ruby, and give you insights into ruby's nature that you may not get from the reference manual.


Table of contents

 1. What is ruby? 14. Redefinition of methods
 2. Getting started 15. Access control
 3. Simple examples 16. Singleton methods
 4. Strings 17. Modules
 5. Regular expressions 18. Procedure objects
 6. Arrays and associative arrays 19. Variables
 7. Back to the simple examples 20. Global variables
 8. Control structures 21. Instance variables
 9. Iterators 22. Local variables
10. Object-oriented thinking 23. Class constants
11. Methods 24. Exception processing: rescue
12. Classes 25. Exception processing: ensure
13. Inheritance 26. Nuts and bolts

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