Ruby User's Guide

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.

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

Document history

Original Japanese version by matz.
First English translation by GOTO Kentaro & Julian Fondren.
Further translation and editing by Mark Slagell.

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