Good solid reference | The Ruby Programming Language | David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

The ruby programming language | The Ruby Programming Language | David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

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	• The Ruby Programming Language David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto O'Reilly Media, 2008 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very useful Ruby guide

I consider this my best reference for Ruby work. There are quite a few good books, many for novices and a few good ones at my intermediate level. This one ties together language basics, is a solid reference, and includes most advanced topics.

Good solid reference

This is one of those books that you just need to have. I have both this and the 1.8 Pick Axe book (Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition). I use this one for quick look-ups as it's much smaller and packed with good information.

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The ruby programming language

after reading the book it's the first on my recommendation list to any ruby newcommer programmer or experienced programmer who want to master the language. it's comprehensive and covers the syntactic structure of the language to the very advanced topics like Metaprogramming and Domain specific languages aka DSLs and fun to read and easy to follow its short tutorials written by yukihiro matz -the creator of the ruby- and David flangan - professional author well known for his book JavaScript the definitive guide - the book is divided into 10 chapters to fill 430 pages each chapter focus and dive deeply in specific part of the language mentioning the differences between ruby 1.8 & 1.9 when necessary :
Chapter 1 => Introduction .
Chapter 2 => The structure & execution of ruby programms
Chapter 3 => DataTypes & OBjects
Chapter 4 => Expressions & operators
Chapter 5 => Statements & control structures
Chapter 6 => Methods & Procs
Chapter 7 => Classes & Methods
Chapter 8 => Reflection & metaProgramming
Chapter 9 => The ruby platform
Chapter 10 => The Ruby environement
if you want to master the ruby programming language, absolutely this is the book for you, each chapter you read you'll get used to the language as the examples are short and explaining each features of the languages and all the possible errors that might happen and what works good and what works better , Chapter 9 near the end of the book is a reference of the the Ruby Core library API covering Strings & text processing, Regular expressions, Numbers & Math, Dates & times, The Enumerable module & the Array, Hash & Set collections, I|O & files, networking and finally Threading and concurrency accompanied by tons of short examples ... recommended ;)

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Excellent programming language book

This is a great book for experienced programmers trying to learn Ruby. It doesn't waste time explaining concepts you already know, or setting up silly examples, it just explains the language and how to use it.

The writing is clear and does a good job explaining even the more complicated features of the language. The code snippets are helpful and to the point. The pace is quick, but it covers everything well.

It also does a good job of pointing out differences between Ruby versions 1.8 and 1.9.

Excellent primer for experienced programmer

This book is both a great primer and reference while starting out with Ruby. The text is clearly written with little 'fluff.'

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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.

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