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Ruby user's guide Contents

Ruby is "an easy object oriented language". It may seem a little strange at first, but it is designed to be easily read and written. This User's Guide will get you started at invoking and using ruby, and give you insights into ruby's nature that you may not get from the reference manual.

Table of contents

1.What is ruby? 15. Access control

2.Getting Started 16. Singleton methods

3.Simple examples 17. Modules

4.Strings 18. Procedure objects

5.Regular expressions 19. Variables

6.Arrays 20. Global variables

7.Back to the simple examples 21. Instance variables

8.Control structures 22. Local variables

9.Iterators 23. Class constants

10.Object-oriented thinking 24. Exception processing: rescue

11.Methods 25. Exception processing: ensure

12.Classes 26. Accessors

13.Inheritance 27. Object initialization

14.Redefinition of methods 28. Nuts and bolts

Document history

Original Japanese version by matz.
First English translation by GOTO Kentaro & Julian Fondren.
Further translation and editing by Mark Slagell.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2005 Mark Slagell

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."

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