Core Ruby 1.9.1 Programming

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Core Ruby Programming

• Introduction
  
• Installation
  
  
  
  • What is Ruby?
    
  • How Ruby can help you, in more detail
    
  • Downloading Ruby and an Editor
    
  • Ruby Programming Environment
    
  
  
• First Ruby Program
  
• Features
  
• Numbers in Ruby
  
  
  
  • Operators and Precedence
    
  • Difference between or and || operator
    
  
  
• Fun with Strings
  
• Variables and Assignment
  
• Summary 1
  
• Scope
  
  
  
  • Global scope and global variables
    
  • Built-in global variables
    
  • Local scope
    
  
  
• Getting Input
  
• Names in Ruby
  
• More on Ruby Methods
  
• Writing own Ruby Methods
  
  
  
  • Bang (!) methods
    
  • Method names ending with ?
    
  
  
• Summary 2
  
• Ruby ri Tool
  
• More on Strings
  
  
  
  • Listing all methods of a class or object
    
  • Comparing two strings for equality
    
  • Using %w
    
  
  
• Simple Constructs
  
  
  
  • Conditional ?:
    
  • Statement modifiers
    
  • Case Expressions
    
  • nil is an Object
    
  • Some Additional Information
    
  
  
• Ruby Blocks
  
• Summary 3
  
• Ruby Arrays
  
  
  
  • Parallel Assignment
    
  • Environment Variables
    
  • Command line arguments
    
  • Library GetoptLong
    
  
  
• Ranges
  
• Ruby Symbols
  
• Hashes
  
  
  
  • Using Symbols as Hash Keys
    
  
  
• Random Numbers
  
• Read/Write files
  
  
  
  • Traversing Directory Trees
    
  • Random Access
    
  
  
• Summary 4
  
• Regular Expressions
  
  
  
  • Literal characters
    
  • The wildcard character . (dot)
    
  • Character classes
    
  • Special escape sequences for common character classes
    
  
  
• Writing our own Class
  
  
  
  • Literal Constructors
    
  • Garbage Collection
    
  • Class Methods
    
  
  
• Method Missing
  
• Ruby Procs
  
• Including Other Files
  
• Ruby Open Classes
  
• Inheritance
  
  
  
  • Inheritance and Instance Variables
    
  
  
• Overriding Methods
  
  
  
  • Usage of super
    
  • Redefining methods
    
  • Abstract Class
    
  
  
• Ruby Overloading Methods
  
• Summary 5
  
• Access Control
  
  
  
  • Overriding private methods
    
  • Top-level methods
    
  • Are instance variables inherited by a sub-class?
    
  
  
• Exceptions
  
  
  
  • Raising an Exception
    
  • Handling an Exception
    
  • Validation example
    
  
  
• Ruby Logging
  
• Ruby Time class
  
• Summary 6
  
• Duck Typing
  
• Ruby Syntactic Sugar
  
• Mutable and Immutable Objects
  
  
  
  • Freezing Objects
    
  • frozen?
    
  
  
• Summary 7
  
• Object Serialization
  
• Modules/Mixins
  
• Self
  
  
  
  • Top level context
    
  • Self inside class and module definitions
    
  • Self in instance method definitions
    
  • Self in singleton-method and class-method definitions
    
  
  
• Constants
  
• Summary 8
  

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