Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book – by Jeremy McAnally is a free E-book which is available for download(Soft- Copy only). The printed copy of this book wil cost you only $9.95.
It is written in very conventional manner thus it becomes easy to go with the base concepts & knowing the elements of the language.
This 144 pages book will teach you Ruby programming. It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
Table of contents
1 Welcome to Ruby
Basic Concepts of Ruby
Types in Ruby
Collections
Variables and the Like
2 Break it down now!
Methods
Blocks and Proc Objects
Modules
Files
3 Hustle and flow (control)
Conditionals
Loops
Exceptions
4 The System Beneath
Filesystem Interaction
Threads and Forks and Processes
Environment variables, command line
Win32 and Beyond
5 Looking Beyond Home
Networking and the Web
It’s Like Distributed or Something…
Data my base, please!
6 It’s a Library!
String Manipulation
Date/Time
Hashing and Cryptography
Unit testing
Appendix A Links and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++
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Reminds me of the old Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby.