<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide</title> <link rel="StyleSheet" href="pr_style.css" type="text/css" media="screen"> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <table bgcolor="#c09090" cellpadding="3" border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td colspan="3"> <table bgcolor="#701a1a" cellpadding="20" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="6in"> <h1 class="header">Programming Ruby</h1> <h3 class="subheader">The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide</h3> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="middle"></td> <td width="33%" align="right"></td> </tr> </table> <h1>Table of Contents</h1> <blockquote> <blockquote> <table width="558" height="730" background="fadedcover.gif"> <tr> <td> <a href="foreword.html">Foreword</a> <br> <a href="preface.html">Preface</a> <br> <a href="roadmap.html">Roadmap</a> <br> <a href="intro.html">Ruby.new</a> <br> <a href="tut_classes.html">Classes, Objects, and Variables</a> <br> <a href="tut_containers.html">Containers, Blocks, and Iterators</a> <br> <a href="tut_stdtypes.html">Standard Types</a> <br> <a href="tut_methods.html">More About Methods</a> <br> <a href="tut_expressions.html">Expressions</a> <br> <a href="tut_exceptions.html">Exceptions, Catch, and Throw</a> <br> <a href="tut_modules.html">Modules</a> <br> <a href="tut_io.html">Basic Input and Output</a> <br> <a href="tut_threads.html">Threads and Processes</a> <br> <a href="trouble.html">When Trouble Strikes</a> <br> <a href="rubyworld.html">Ruby and Its World</a> <br> <a href="web.html">Ruby and the Web</a> <br> <a href="ext_tk.html">Ruby Tk</a> <br> <a href="win32.html">Ruby and Microsoft Windows</a> <br> <a href="ext_ruby.html">Extending Ruby</a> <br> <a href="language.html">The Ruby Language</a> <br> <a href="classes.html">Classes and Objects</a> <br> <a href="taint.html">Locking Ruby in the Safe</a> <br> <a href="ospace.html">Reflection, ObjectSpace, and Distributed Ruby</a> <br> <a href="builtins.html">Built-in Classes and Methods</a> <br> <a href="lib_standard.html">Standard Library</a> <br> <a href="lib_patterns.html">Object-Oriented Design Libraries</a> <br> <a href="lib_network.html">Network and Web Libraries</a> <br> <a href="lib_windows.html">Microsoft Windows Support</a> <br> <a href="rdtool.html">Embedded Documentation</a> <br> <a href="irb.html">Interactive Ruby Shell</a> <br> <a href="support.html">Support</a> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p></p> <hr> <table bgcolor="#a03030" cellpadding="10" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="33%" align="left"></td> <td width="33%" align="center" valign="middle"></td> <td width="33%" align="right"></td> </tr> </table> <p></p> <font size="-1">Extracted from the book "Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"</font> <br> <font size="-3"> Copyright © 2001 by Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at <a href="http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/">http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/</a>)). <p></p> Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. <p></p> Distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. <br> </font> </body> </html>