Black David A. The Well-Grounded Rubyist

2nd Edition. — Manning Publications, 2014. — 536 p. — ISBN: 1617291692.The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition addresses both newcomers to Ruby as well as Ruby programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the language. This beautifully written and totally revised second edition includes coverage of features that are new in Ruby 2.1, as well as expanded and updated coverage of aspects of the language that have changed.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and EPUB formats from Manning Publications.About the TechnologyThis is a good time for Ruby! It's powerful like Java or C++, and has dynamic features that let your code react gracefully to changes at runtime. And it's elegant, so creating applications, development tools, and administrative scripts is easier and more straightforward. With the long-awaited Ruby 2, an active development community, and countless libraries and productivity tools, Ruby has come into its own.About the BookThe Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition is a beautifully written tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, reflection, and threading. The book concentrates on the language, preparing you to use Ruby in any way you choose. This second edition includes coverage of new Ruby features such as keyword arguments, lazy enumerators, and Module#prepend, along with updated information on new and changed core classes and methods.What's InsideClear explanations of Ruby concepts
Numerous simple examples
Updated for Ruby 2.1
Prepares you to use Ruby anywhere for any purposeDavid A. Black is an internationally-known software developer, author, trainer, speaker, and event organizer. He is a Ruby standard library contributor and one of the founders of Ruby Central, Inc., the parent organization of the official international Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences. David works at 2U, Inc. in New York City.Ruby Foundations
Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy
Objects, methods, and local variables
Organizing objects with classes
Modules and program organization
The default object (self), scope, and visibility
Control-flow techniques
Built-In Classes and Module
Built-in essentials
Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects
Collection and container objects
Collections central: Enumerable and Enumerator
Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations
File and I/O operations
Ruby Dynamics
Object individuation
Callable and runnable objects
Callbacks, hooks, and runtime introspection