Ruby - Contents

Ruby user's guide

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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.

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

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

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