Ruby Inspect
Ruby Inspect, a comprehensive review of the programming language Ruby
Welcome to the Ruby Inspect!
Ruby Inspect is an online study note for programmers who wish to uncover the interesting facts of Ruby, a programming language that has been thrived for more than 20 years. This study note focuses on the programming language designs of Ruby.
Table of Contents
- Ruby Installation and your first Ruby program
- Installation
- HelloWorld.rb
- History of Ruby
- Programming Paradigms of Ruby:
- Object Oriented
- Functional
- Imperative
- Variable Typing in Ruby: Dynamic or Static Typing?
- Types of Variables
- Typing Strength
- Type Coercion
- Scope in Ruby: Dynamic or Static Score?
- Reflection
- Computational Reflection
- Structural Reflection
- Possible Memory Hazard
- Short Circuit Evaluation
- Parameter Passing
- Strict vs Non-strict Evaluation
- Math Operations on Numbers
- Multidimensional Arrays
- The String Type
- Using Default Parameters in Ruby
- Constructors
- Garbage Collection
- Namespaces
- Inheritance
- Overloading Operators
- Polymorphism
- Exceptions
- Method Binding: Dynamic or Static Binding?
- Deep vs Shallow copying of objects
- Anonymous Functions
- Higher Order Functions
- Function composition
- Infinite Lists
- Return Value in Ruby
- Dangling Else
About Author
The author of Ruby Inspect, Yida Chen, is an undergraduate computer science student at Bucknell University. His research interests spread from Medical Image Analysis to Digital Humanities. He is the project maintainer of an open-access software, KALMUS: tools for color analysis of films.
Acknowledgement
This online study note is a part of outcomes from the course CSCI308: Programming Language Design instructed by Prof. Lea Wittie and Prof. Alex Kelly at Bucknell University.
Open-Access
The material of the Ruby Inspect is open-access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The source codes provided in the study notes are distributed under the open-source MIT License. You can find the copies of source codes in the src/ directory of this book’s GitHub Repository.
Contact Author
If you find any errors, typos, or have any suggestions to Ruby Inspect, please contact the author, Yida Chen, via email yc015@bucknell.edu or open an issue in the textbook’s GitHub repository.
