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Free 290 Page Book Of Ruby: Chapter 15, Marshalling
The latest update to The Book Of Ruby, which has just gone online, adds a chapter on the art of ‘marshalling’ to save and load data in binary format.
The Book Of Ruby now has 290 pages and comes complete with 233 small ready-to-run Ruby programs to illustrate every topic described in the text. The fifteen chapters (plus introduction) cover the following topics:
Introduction
GETTING STARTED WITH RUBY
Chapter One
STRINGS, NUMBERS, CLASSES AND OBJECTS
Chapter Two
CLASS HIERARCHIES, ATTRIBUTES AND CLASS VARIABLES
Chapter Three
STRINGS AND RANGES
Chapter Four
ARRAYS AND HASHES
Chapter Five
LOOPS AND ITERATORS
Chapter Six
CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS
Chapter Seven
METHODS
Chapter Eight
PASSING ARGUMENTS AND RETURNING VALUES
Chapter Nine
EXCEPTION HANDLING
Chapter Ten
BLOCKS, PROCS AND LAMBDAS
Chapter Eleven
SYMBOLS
Chapter Twelve
MODULES AND MIXINS
Chapter Thirteen
FILES AND IO
Chapter Fourteen
YAML
Chapter Fifteen
MARSHAL
A more detailed listing of the topics covered can be found on The Book Of Ruby Download page.
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