The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition
This books provides a thorough, in depth introduction to the Ruby programming language.
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a perfect tutorial for newcomers to Ruby and a great way for experienced Rubyists to deepen their understanding of the language. This thorough book starts with Ruby fundamentals and offers an in-depth guide to all major language features. In this newly-revised third edition covering Ruby 2.5, expert authors David A. Black and Joe Leo make even familiar concepts seem new and interesting.
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Part 1: Ruby foundations
1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
1.1. Basic Ruby language literacy
1.1.1. A Ruby syntax survival kit
1.1.2. The variety of Ruby identifiers
1.1.3. Method calls, messages, and Ruby objects
1.1.4. Writing and saving a simple program
1.1.5. Feeding the program to Ruby
1.1.6. Keyboard and file I/O
1.2. Anatomy of the Ruby installation
1.2.1. The Ruby standard library subdirectory (RbConfig::CONFIG[“rubylibdir”])
1.2.2. The C extensions directory (RbConfig::CONFIG[“archdir”])
1.2.3. The site_ruby (RbConfig::CONFIG[“sitedir”]) and vendor_ruby (RbConfig::CONFIG[“vendordir”]) directories
1.2.4. Standard Ruby gems and the gems directory
1.3. Ruby extensions and programming libraries
1.3.1. Loading external files and extensions
1.3.2. “Load”-ing a file in the default load path
1.3.3. “Require”-ing a feature
1.3.4. require_relative
1.4. Out-of-the-box Ruby tools and applications
1.4.1. Interpreter command-line switches
1.4.2. A closer look at interactive Ruby interpretation with irb
1.4.3. ri and RDoc
1.4.4. The rake task-management utility
1.4.5. Installing packages with the gem command
1.5. Summary
2. Objects, methods, and local variables
2.1. Talking to objects
2.1.1. Ruby and object orientation
2.1.2. Creating a generic object
2.1.3. Methods that take arguments
2.1.4. The return value of a method
2.2. Crafting an object: The behavior of a ticket
2.2.1. The ticket object, behavior first
2.2.2. Querying the ticket object
2.2.3. Shortening the ticket code via string interpolation
2.2.4. Ticket availability: Expressing Boolean state in a method
2.3. The innate behaviors of an object
2.3.1. Identifying objects uniquely with the object_id method
2.3.2. Querying an object’s abilities with the respond_to? method
2.3.3. Sending messages to objects with the send method
2.4. A close look at method arguments
2.4.1. Required and optional arguments
2.4.2. Default values for arguments
2.4.3. Order of parameters and arguments
2.4.4. What you can’t do in argument lists
2.5. Local variables and variable assignment
2.5.1. Variables, objects, and references
2.5.2. References in variable assignment and reassignment
2.5.3. References and method arguments
2.5.4. Local variables and the things that look like them
2.6. Summary
3. Organizing objects with classes
3.1. Classes and instances
3.1.1. Instance methods
3.1.2. Overriding methods
3.1.3. Reopening classes
3.2. Instance variables and object state
3.2.1. Initializing an object with state
3.3. Setter methods
3.3.1. The equal sign (=) in method names
3.3.2. Syntactic sugar for assignment-like methods
3.3.3. Setter methods unleashed
3.4. Attributes and the attr_* method family
3.4.1. Automating the creation of attributes
3.4.2. Summary of attr_* methods
3.5. Inheritance and the Ruby class hierarchy
3.5.1. Single inheritance: One to a customer
3.5.2. Object ancestry and the not-so-missing link: The Object class
3.6. Classes as objects and message receivers
3.6.1. Creating class objects
3.6.2. How class objects call methods
3.6.3. A singleton method by any other name�
3.6.4. When, and why, to write a class method
3.6.5. Class methods vs. instance methods
3.7. Constants up close
3.7.1. Basic use of constants
3.7.2. Reassigning vs. modifying constants
3.8. Nature vs. nurture in Ruby objects
3.9. Summary
4. Modules and program organization
4.1. Basics of module creation and use
4.1.1. A module encapsulating “stacklikeness”
4.1.2. Mixing a module into a class
4.1.3. Using the module further
4.2. Modules, classes, and method lookup
4.2.1. Illustrating the basics of method lookup
4.2.2. Defining the same method more than once
4.2.3. How prepend works
4.2.4. How extend works
4.2.5. The rules of method lookup summarized
4.2.6. Going up the method search path with super
4.2.7. Inspecting method hierarchies with method and super_method
4.3. The method_missing method
4.3.1. Combining method_missing and super
4.4. Class/module design and naming
4.4.1. Mix-ins and/or inheritance
4.4.2. Nesting modules and classes
4.5. Summary
5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility
5.1. Understanding self, the current/default object
5.1.1. Who gets to be self, and where
5.1.2. The top-level self object
5.1.3. Self inside class, module, and method definitions
5.1.4. Self as the default receiver of messages
5.1.5. Resolving instance variables through self
5.2. Determining scope
5.2.1. Global scope and global variables
5.2.2. Local scope
5.2.3. The interaction between local scope and self
5.2.4. Scope and resolution of constants
5.2.5. Class variable syntax, scope, and visibility
5.3. Deploying method-access rules
5.3.1. Private methods
5.3.2. Protected methods
5.4. Writing and using top-level methods
5.4.1. Defining a top-level method
5.4.2. Predefined (built-in) top-level methods
5.5. Summary
6. Control-flow techniques
6.1. Conditional code execution
6.1.1. The if keyword and friends
6.1.2. Assignment syntax in condition bodies and tests
6.1.3. case statements
6.2. Repeating actions with loops
6.2.1. Unconditional looping with the loop method
6.2.2. Conditional looping with the while and until keywords
6.2.3. Looping based on a list of values
6.3. Iterators and code blocks
6.3.1. The ingredients of iteration
6.3.2. Iteration, home-style
6.3.3. The anatomy of a method call
6.3.4. Curly braces vs. do/end in code block syntax
6.3.5. Implementing times
6.3.6. The importance of being each
6.3.7. From each to map
6.3.8. Block parameters and variable scope
6.4. Error handling and exceptions
6.4.1. Raising and rescuing exceptions
6.4.2. The rescue keyword to the rescue!
6.4.3. Raising exceptions explicitly
6.4.4. Capturing an exception in a rescue clause
6.4.5. The ensure clause
6.4.6. Creating your own exception classes
6.5. Summary
Part 2: Built-in classes and modules
7. Built-in essentials
7.1. Ruby’s literal constructors
7.2. Recurrent syntactic sugar
7.2.1. Defining operators by defining methods
7.2.2. Customizing unary operators
7.3. Bang (!) methods and �danger�
7.3.1. Destructive (receiver-changing) effects as danger
7.3.2. Destructiveness and �danger� vary independently
7.4. Built-in and custom to_* (conversion) methods
7.4.1. String conversion: to_s and other methods defined on Object
7.4.2. Array conversion with to_a and the * operator
7.4.3. Numerical conversion with to_i and to_f
7.4.4. Role-playing to_* methods
7.5. Boolean states, Boolean objects, and nil
7.5.1. True and false as states
7.5.2. true and false as objects
7.5.3. The special object nil
7.6. Comparing two objects
7.6.1. Equality tests
7.6.2. Comparisons and the Comparable module
7.7. Inspecting object capabilities
7.7.1. Listing an object’s methods
7.7.2. Querying class and module objects
7.7.3. Filtered and selected method lists
7.8. Summary
8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
8.1. Working with strings
8.1.1. String notation
8.1.2. Basic string manipulation
8.1.3. Querying strings
8.1.4. String comparison and ordering
8.1.5. String transformation
8.1.6. String conversions
8.1.7. String encoding: A brief introduction
8.2. Symbols and their uses
8.2.1. Chief characteristics of symbols
8.2.2. Symbols and identifiers
8.2.3. Symbols in practice
8.2.4. Strings and symbols in comparison
8.3. Numerical objects
8.4. Times and dates
8.4.1. Instantiating date/time objects
8.4.2. Date/time query methods
8.4.3. Date/time formatting methods
8.4.4. Date/time conversion methods
8.5. Summary
9. Collection and container objects
9.1. Arrays and hashes in comparison
9.2. Collection handling with arrays
9.2.1. Creating a new array
9.2.2. Inserting, retrieving, and removing array elements
9.2.3. Combining arrays with other arrays
9.2.4. Array transformations
9.2.5. Array querying
9.3. Hashes
9.3.1. Creating a new hash
9.3.2. Inserting, retrieving, and removing hash pairs
9.3.3. Specifying default hash values and behavior
9.3.4. Combining hashes with other hashes
9.3.5. Hash transformations
9.3.6. Hash querying
9.3.7. Hashes as final method arguments
9.3.8. A detour back to argument syntax: Named (keyword) arguments
9.4. Ranges
9.4.1. Creating a range
9.4.2. Range-inclusion logic
9.5. Sets
9.5.1. Set creation
9.5.2. Manipulating set elements
9.5.3. Subsets and supersets
9.6. Summary
10. Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
12. File and I/O operations
Part 3: Ruby dynamics
13. Object individuation
14. Callable and runnable objects
15. Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection
16. Ruby and Functional Programming
About the Technology
Ruby is a dynamic language perfect for creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts. Because it's the backbone of the well-loved Ruby on Rails web framework, Ruby has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world. This elegant language boasts a friendly development community, countless libraries, and amazing productivity tools. Isn't it time you discovered the benefits of being a well-grounded Rubyist?About the book
The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion. Ruby masters David A. Black and Joe Leo distill their years of knowledge for you, concentrating on the language and its uses so you can use Ruby in any way you choose. This Third Edition includes coverage of the latest Ruby features such as the safe navigation operator, method currying, writing side effect-free code, and recursion.What's inside
- Fully updated to cover the latest in Ruby 2.5
- Clear explanations of Ruby concepts and how to apply them
- Simple examples to seal in the learning
- Prepares you to use Ruby anywhere for any purpose
About the reader
This book teaches Ruby from the ground up. The reader should have command of basic programming concepts in another language.About the authors
David A. Black is an internationally-known Ruby developer, author, trainer, speaker, and event organizer, as well as a co-founder of Ruby Central. Joseph Leo III is a Ruby teacher, mentor, and community advocate. He is the lead organizer of the Gotham Ruby Conference (GoRuCo) and founder of Def Method.
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Great foundation for becoming a Ruby expert. Basic experience is a plus but not necessary for picking up the language.
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