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.
