Ruby Recipes : A Problem-Solution Approach

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. 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. Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii A Taste of Ruby....Pages 1-12 Working with Files and Strings....Pages 13-44 Language Elements....Pages 45-73 Collections....Pages 75-101 Blocks and Iterators....Pages 103-118 Input-Output....Pages 119-149 Regular Expressions....Pages 151-188 Putting It into Action....Pages 189-215 Back Matter....Pages 217-226