The Ruby Programming Language
David Flanagan
O'Reilly Media
*The Ruby Programming Language* is *the* authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team:* David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including *JavaScript: The Definitive Guide* and *Java in a Nutshell* ) and committer to the Ruby Subversion repository.* Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, creator, designer and lead developer of Ruby and author of *Ruby in a Nutshell* , which has been expanded and revised to become this book.* why the lucky stiff, artist and Ruby programmer extraordinaire.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...