Ruby Recipes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. A Taste of Ruby

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   Pages 1-12

3. Working with Files and Strings

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   Pages 13-44

4. Language Elements

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   Pages 45-73

5. Collections

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   Pages 75-101

6. Blocks and Iterators

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   Pages 103-118

7. Input-Output

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   Pages 119-149

8. Regular Expressions

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   Pages 151-188

9. Putting It into Action

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   Pages 189-215

10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-226

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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.

• Ruby
• Ruby Scripting
• Strings
• Arrays
• Hashes
• Parsing
• SQL

• New South Wales, Australia

  Malay Mandal

A Master of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) from IISc, Bangalore ('94), Malay is working in IT for the last 22 or so years. He worked across multiple geographical locations (India, Japan, Singapore, UK ..), across multiple technology stack and for quite a few well known organisations (Telstra, JP Morgan, Citigroup etc.). He quite often actively learns new things, and his creation (other than books) include Apps in Google Play, and some small wooden pieces of furniture at home.

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