Ruby Recipes

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.