Reading "The Ruby Programming Language" by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto

The Ruby Programming Language: Everything You Need to Know written by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto was published in 2008.

I read this book because I want to learn Ruby. I learn Ruby because I want to know how Jekyll works. I want to know how Jekyll works because my blog was generated by Jekyll.

There are many books about the Ruby programming language. Why did I pick up this book? Two reasons:

1. It is a complete book. Read its subtitle “Everything You Need to Know!”
2. The second writer—Yukihiro Matsumoto—of this book is the creator of Ruby.

Notes on Preface

The authors said that this book is loosely modeled after the classic The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

Notes on Each Chapter

OK, let’s begin reading chapter by chapter:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Structure and Execution of Ruby Programs
• Chapter 3. Datatypes and Objects
• Chapter 4. Expressions and Operators
• Chapter 5. Statements and Control Structures
• Chapter 6. Methods, Procs, Lambdas, and Closures
• Chapter 7. Classes and Modules
• Chapter 8. Reflection and Metaprogramming
• Chapter 9. The Ruby Platform
• Chapter 10. The Ruby Environment