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Tables of Contents for Ruby in a Nutshell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
4
Ruby's Elegance
1
2
Ruby in Action
3
2
Language Basics
5
31
Command-Line Options
5
2
Environment Variables
7
1
Lexical Conventions
8
1
Literals
9
6
Variables
15
2
Operators
17
3
Methods
20
5
Control Structures
25
4
Object-Oriented Programming
29
4
Security
33
3
Built-in Library Reference
36
74
Predefined Variables
36
2
Predefined Global Constants
38
1
Built-in Functions
39
8
Built-in Library
47
63
Standard Library Reference
110
56
Standard Library
110
56
Ruby Tools
166
10
Standard Tools
166
7
Additional Tools
173
1
Ruby Application Archive
174
2
Ruby Updates
176
5
Summary of Changes
176
2
The Future of Ruby
178
1
Participate in Ruby
179
2
Index
181