Getting Started with Ruby programming language

A complet tutorial about Ruby programming language under 594 pages for advanced level students, free training document in PDF by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto.

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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Try Ruby
• The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs
• Lexical Structure
• Syntactic Structure
• File Structure
• Program Encoding
• Program Execution
• Datatypes and Objects
• Numbers
• Text
• Arrays
• Hashes
• Ranges
• Symbols
• Expressions and Operators
• Statements and Control Structures
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Iterators and Enumerable Objects
• Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures
• Defining Simple Methods
• Method Arguments

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