Ruby袖珍参考手册pdf英文文字版

Ruby袖珍参考手册pdf英文文字版
Ruby，一种为简单快捷的面向对象编程（面向对象程序设计）而创的脚本语言，在20世纪90年代由日本人松本行弘（まつもとゆきひろ/Yukihiro Matsumoto）开发，遵守GPL协议和Ruby License。它的灵感与特性来自于 Perl、Smalltalk、Eiffel、Ada 以及 Lisp 语言。由 Ruby 语言本身还发展出了JRuby（Java 平台）、IronRuby（.NET 平台）等其他平台的 Ruby 语言替代品。Ruby的作者于1993年2月24日开始编写Ruby，直至1995年12月才正式公开发布于fj（新闻组）。因为Perl发音与6月诞生石pearl（珍珠）相同，因此Ruby以7月诞生石ruby（红宝石）命名。

Whether you've come to Ruby because of the Rails web development framework --Ruby's killer app -- or simply because it's a relatively clean, powerful and expressive language that's useful for a lot of applications, the Ruby Pocket Reference is organized to help you find what you need quickly. This book not only will get you up to speed on how Ruby works, it provides you with a handy reference you can use anywhere, anytime.

In this book, you find essential information on:

Reserved words, operators, comments, numbers, variables, ranges, and symbols
Predefined variables andglobal constants
Conditional statements, method use, classes, and modules (mixins)
Lists of methods from the Object, String, Array, and Hash classes and the Kernel module
sprintf andtime formatting directories
Interactive Ruby (irb) and the Ruby debugger
Ruby documentation