Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Author: William Djaja Tjokroaminata
Converted to Pandora by: Julian I. Kamil
Original text: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~billtj/ruby.html

Book contents

  Prologue: Resources

1. Using warnings
2. Interactive shell
3. On-screen documentation
4. Class#method notation
5. Getting characters from a string
6. Array and hash default values
7. Mutable hash keys
8. Reading numerals from a file
9. Pre / post increment / decrement operators
10. Lexical scoping in blocks
11. Two sets of logical operators
12. The === operator and case statements
13. White space
14. The “dot” method call operator
15. Range objects
16. Boolean values
17. Variables, references, and objects
18. Deep copy
19. Class variables
20. Substituting backslashes

  Epilogue: Things that are good to know

Copyright notice

Original format – Copyright © 2002-2006 William Djaja Tjokroaminata. All rights reserved.
Pandora format – Copyright © 2006 Julian I. Kamil. All rights reserved.
This article has been made available at The Ruby Bookshelf in the Pandora format under the GNU Free Documentation License.