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 RubyRead and write data Write functionsWork with arrays, ranges, hashes, and iteratorsHandle dates and timeProcess XML as textMaster OOP concepts such as classes, objects, subclassing, and inheritanceConnect to databases


Who This Book Is For


Programmers new to Ruby, and web developers interested in knowing the foundations of the language.