Overview
- Shows how Ruby can be used to do scripting tasks with intermediate complexity
- Teaches readers enough features to do day-to-day scripting work
- Excellent coverage of Regex
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About this book
Solve your Ruby programming problems that occur during your day-to-day scripting work. This book contains a varied selection of practical and interesting code recipes designed to make your coding life easier. Ruby Recipes includes solutions to problems in working with data, handling exceptions, writing blocks, and using regular expressions.
This book provides ready scripts for both simple complex scripting tasks, which you can use readily or with only minor modifications. These scripts cover areas such as collections, classes and structures, functional programming, and log handling. With these handy recipes at your fingertips, you will be able to solve those niggling problems and become even more efficient.
What You Will Learn
- Install and run Ruby
- Read and write data
- Write functions
- Work with arrays, ranges, hashes, and iterators
- Handle dates and time
- Process XML as text
- Master OOP concepts such as classes, objects, subclassing, and inheritance
- Connect to databases
Who This Book Is For
Programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ruby Recipes
Book Subtitle: A Problem-Solution Approach
Authors: Malay Mandal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2469-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Malay Mandal 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2468-7Published: 09 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2469-4Published: 08 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Programming Techniques, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters