The Ruby Programming Language
Everything You Need to Know
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2.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $42.99
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- $42.99
Publisher Description
The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team:
David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and Java in a Nutshell) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository.
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of Ruby in a Nutshell, which has been expanded and revised to become this book.
why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire.This book begins with a quick-start tutorial to the language, and then explains the language in detail from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules.
The book also includes a long and thorough introduction to the rich API of the Ruby platform, demonstrating -- with heavily-commented example code -- Ruby's facilities for text processing, numeric manipulation, collections, input/output, networking, and concurrency. An entire chapter is devoted to Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities.
The Ruby Programming Language documents the Ruby language definitively but without the formality of a language specification. It is written for experienced programmers who are new to Ruby, and for current Ruby programmers who want to challenge their understanding and increase their mastery of the language.
Customer Reviews
Seriously Outdated
This book is seriously outdated; it is essentially dated to the initial versions of Ruby (1.8 and 1.9) while we are currently in 2.2.3.
Sections like Security are now completely wrong and important details like modulus of negative numbers which are computed significantly different (although very interestingly) from other languages are omitted. The text is essentially unchanged and dated to 2008. This book was a great value then but not today.
Ruby is an amazing language and the designers brilliant and forward thinking however, the publisher has essentially dropped the ball.
If you do get it or have already gotten it join me in hoping for a new version of the book which is updated to the current state of the language and which includes content on the strategic direction of the language, i.e., where is ruby going in terms of type safety, functional programming, security, and other areas.