Table of Contents

DedicationACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION: WHAT IS RUBY?Chapter 1: INTERACTIVE RUBY AND THE RUBY ENVIRONMENTChapter 2: AMUSEMENTS AND SIMPLE UTILITIESChapter 3: PROGRAMMER UTILITIESChapter 4: TEXT MANIPULATIONChapter 5: NUMBER UTILITIESChapter 6: FUNCTIONALISM WITH BLOCKS AND PROCSChapter 7: USING, OPTIMIZING, AND TESTING FUNCTIONAL TECHNIQUESChapter 8: HTML AND XML TOOLSChapter 9: MORE COMPLEX UTILITIES AND TRICKS, PART IChapter 10: MORE COMPLEX UTILITIES AND TRICKS, PART IIChapter 11: CGI AND THE WEBChapter 12: RUBYGEMS AND RAILS PREPARATIONChapter 13: A SIMPLE RAILS PROJECTHow Does Ruby Compare to Other Languages?Colophon

About the Author

Kevin C. Baird received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He originally wrote his dissertation in Python but rewrote the project after discovering Ruby, and he hasn't looked back since. He has presented at RubyConf and written articles for Linux Journal, Music & Computers magazine, and the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference proceedings.