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The Product: ISBN: 9780596516178 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780596516178 Author(s): David Flanagan Format: Paperback Year: 2008 Publisher: O'Reilly Media Dimensions: 180 x 234 x 23 (w x l x h) Pages: 429 Series: Oreilly

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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 Programm