The well-grounded Rubyist

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Black, David A.,
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Shelter Island, NY : Manning Publications Co., [2019].
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In The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition expert authors David A. Black and Joseph Leo deliver Ruby mastery in an easy-to-read, casual style. You'll lock in core principles as you write your first Ruby programs. Then, you'll progressively build up to topics like reflection, threading, and recursion, cementing your knowledge with high-value exercises to practice your skills along the way.

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Third edition.
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English

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Includes index.
Description
In The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Third Edition expert authors David A. Black and Joseph Leo deliver Ruby mastery in an easy-to-read, casual style. You'll lock in core principles as you write your first Ruby programs. Then, you'll progressively build up to topics like reflection, threading, and recursion, cementing your knowledge with high-value exercises to practice your skills along the way.
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O'Reilly O'Reilly Online Learning: Academic/Public Library Edition

Table of Contents

Intro
Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
About the authors
About the cover illustration
Part 1. Ruby foundations
Chapter 1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
1.1. Basic Ruby language literacy
1.2. Anatomy of the Ruby installation
1.3. Ruby extensions and programming libraries
1.4. Out-of-the-box Ruby tools and applications
Summary
Chapter 2. Objects, methods, and local variables
2.1. Talking to objects
2.2. Crafting an object: the behavior of a ticket
2.3. The innate behaviors of an object
2.4. A close look at method arguments
2.5. Local variables and variable assignment
Summary
Chapter 3. Organizing objects with classes
3.1. Classes and instances
3.2. Instance variables and object state
3.3. Setter methods
3.4. Attributes and the attr_* method family
3.5. Inheritance and the Ruby class hierarchy
3.6. Classes as objects and message receivers
3.7. Constants up close
3.8. Nature vs. nurture in Ruby objects
Summary
Chapter 4. Modules and program organization
4.1. Basics of module creation and use
4.2. Modules, classes, and method lookup
4.3. The method_missing method
4.4. Class/module design and naming
Summary
Chapter 5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility
5.1. Understanding self, the current/default object
5.2. Determining scope
5.3. Deploying method-access rules
5.4. Writing and using top-level methods
Summary
Chapter 6. Control-flow techniques
6.1. Conditional code execution
6.2. Repeating actions with loops
6.3. Iterators and code blocks
6.4. Error handling and exceptions
Summary
Part 2. Built-in classes and modules
Chapter 7. Built-in essentials
7.1. Ruby's literal constructors.
7.2. Recurrent syntactic sugar
7.3. Bang (!) methods and "danger"
7.4. Built-in and custom to_* (conversion) methods
7.5. Boolean states, Boolean objects, and nil
7.6. Comparing two objects
7.7. Inspecting object capabilities
Summary
Chapter 8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
8.1. Working with strings
8.2. Symbols and their uses
8.3. Numerical objects
8.4. Times and dates
Summary
Chapter 9. Collection and container objects
9.1. Arrays and hashes in comparison
9.2. Collection handling with arrays
9.3. Hashes
9.4. Ranges
9.5. Sets
Summary
Chapter 10. Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
10.1. Gaining enumerability through each
10.2. Enumerable Boolean queries
10.3. Enumerable searching and selecting
10.4. Element-wise enumerable operations
10.5. Relatives of each
10.6. The map method
10.7. Strings as quasi-enumerables
10.8. Sorting enumerables
10.9. Enumerators and the next dimension of enumerability
10.10. Enumerator semantics and uses
10.11. Enumerator method chaining
10.12. Lazy enumerators
Summary
Chapter 11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
11.1. What are regular expressions?
11.2. Writing regular expressions
11.3. Building a pattern in a regular expression
11.4. Matching, substring captures, and MatchData
11.5. Fine-tuning regular expressions with quantifiers, anchors, and modifiers
11.6. Converting strings and regular expressions to each other
11.7. Common methods that use regular expressions
Summary
Chapter 12. File and I/O operations
12.1. How Ruby's I/O system is put together
12.2. Basic file operations
12.3. Querying IO and File objects
12.4. Directory manipulation with the Dir class
12.5. File tools from the standard library
Summary.
Part 3. Ruby dynamics
Chapter 13. Object individuation
13.1. Where the singleton methods are: the singleton class
13.2. Modifying Ruby's core classes and modules
13.3. BasicObject as ancestor and class
Summary
Chapter 14. Callable and runnable objects
14.1. Basic anonymous functions: the Proc class
14.2. Creating functions with lambda and
& gt
14.4. The eval family of methods
14.5. Concurrent execution with threads
14.6. Issuing system commands from inside Ruby programs
Summary
Chapter 15. Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection
15.1. Callbacks and hooks
15.2. Interpreting object capability queries
15.3. Introspection of variables and constants
15.4. Tracing execution
15.5. Callbacks and method inspection in practice
Summary
Chapter 16. Ruby and functional programming
16.1. Understanding pure functions
16.2. Immutability
16.3. Higher-order functions
16.4. Recursion
Summary
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Black, D. A., & Leo, J. (2019). The well-grounded Rubyist (Third edition.). Manning Publications Co..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Black, David A. and Joseph, Leo. 2019. The Well-grounded Rubyist. Shelter Island, NY: Manning Publications Co.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Black, David A. and Joseph, Leo. The Well-grounded Rubyist Shelter Island, NY: Manning Publications Co, 2019.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Black, D. A. and Leo, J. (2019). The well-grounded rubyist. Third edn. Shelter Island, NY: Manning Publications Co.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Black, David A.,, and Joseph Leo. The Well-grounded Rubyist Third edition., Manning Publications Co., 2019.

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