The Ruby Programming Language

David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and children in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a blog at www.davidflanagan.com.Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"), the creator of Ruby, is a professional programmer who worked for the Japanese open source company, netlab.jp. Matz is also known as one of the open source evangelists in Japan. He's released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mail user agent, written entirely in emacs lisp. Ruby is his first piece of software that has become known outside of Japan.

出版者:O'Reilly Media, Inc.

作者:David Flanagan

页数:448

出版时间:2008

价格:USD 39.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780596516178

图书标签:rubyProgrammingO'Reilly编程Ruby编程语言计算机敏捷开发

Ruby has gained some attention through the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, but the language alone is worthy of more consideration -- a lot more. This book offers a definition explanation of this powerful and extremely flexible language, which draws inspiration from Lisp, Smalltalk and Perl, but uses a grammar that's easy for C and Java programmers to learn.

With The Ruby Programming Language, you will quickly learn your way around versions 1.8 and 1.9, and discover why this pure object-oriented language is also suitable for procedural and functional programming styles. You'll learn Ruby's lexical structure, primary expressions, conditionals, syntax, classes, the data it manipulates, and more. Ruby blurs the distinction between language and platform, so this book includes a tour of the core Ruby API. But the primary subject is the language itself, including:

* Ruby's lexical structure including basic issues like character set, case sensitivity and reserved words

* Numbers, strings, ranges, arrays, and other data that Ruby programs can manipulate, plus basic features of all Ruby objects

* Primary expressions in Ruby -- literals, variable references, method invocations and assignments

* Conditionals, loops (including blocks and iterator methods), exceptions and other Ruby expressions

* Ruby's method definition and invocation syntax, and the invokeable objects known as procs and lambdas

* An explanation of closures in Ruby and an exploration of functional programming techniques

* Classes and modules in Ruby, inheritance, method visibility, mixing modules and the method name resolution algorithm

* Ruby APIs that allow a program to inspect and manipulate itself, and metaprogramming techniques that use the APIs to extend Ruby's syntax for easier programming

* A quick tutorial of the Ruby platform -- the most important classes and methods, text processing, numeric computation, collections, input/output, networking and threads

The Ruby Programming Language also covers the top-level Ruby programming environment, including global variables and functions, command-line arguments supported by the Ruby interpreter, and Ruby's security mechanism. If you're an experienced programmer who wants a look at this language in depth, this easy-to-follow guide is invaluable.

读后感

《Ruby编程语言》是Ruby语言的权威指南，它涵盖fRuby 1．8和1．9版本方方面面的内容。《Ruby编程语言》的读者是那些有其他编程语言经验的Ruby初学者，以及希望提升Ruby编程水平的人员。 《Ruby编程语言》的开始部分是Ruby的一个快速入门教程，接着从头开始解释语言的细节，包括...  

比Programming Ruby强不少，语法思路的极其清楚，框架堪称完备精美。这点上说有点像是中国人的风格。涵盖了1.9，现在也有影印版了。  

虽然镐头书页出了第三版，包含了1.9的特性，但是我感觉这本书介绍的语言细节方面更多，也更流畅、深入。很多概念介绍的非常的清晰，比如Enumerator,Filter,block vs lamdba vs proc vs method,iterator，metaprogramming等。  

优点很多，比如说语言简单。以我自身的经验而言，英语拥有二级半水平的人，每页中除了个别三四个词汇需要查一下，基本上能很顺畅的读下来。把那些“程序员英语必须要好”的“鬼话”还给“鬼”吧，甚至你根本无需达到阅读维基百科的英文水平。技术文档英文都有简单的特点...  

首先这不算是入门书，作为入门书太枯燥难以理解。 其次这不算是进阶书，因为讲的都是关于ruby的语言特性。 这也不是cookbook。 所以我觉得把RPL比做ruby版K&R挺贴切的。虽然我们都跟人说K&R是入门经典，可自己个谁不是先看谭浩强或者其他随便什么21天绕弯路过来的。ruby入门首...  

用户评价

这才是真正的ruby入门书！

非常不错， 可以作为入门的书籍，不过读的时候要认真一点， 松本自己讲解ruby确实很到位：所谓到位 不是说涉及了多深的内容， 而是 非常完美的把整个ruby世界都展现出来了， 尤其对DSL的例子恰到好处， 自己的语言果然烂熟于胸。 “由本书的作者，亲自为你讲解”， 看到这本书，忍不住想起来大学里 某个老师的经典语录 也顺便感谢他给了我大学里的最高分数。

这才是真正的ruby入门书！

权威的语言参考，但是比较难啃，不适合新手入门使用。

讲的很全面，适合快速学习用