How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Comments and Questions
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Section 1.1. Ruby's Elegance
Section 1.2. Ruby in Action
Chapter 2. Language Basics
Section 2.1. Command-Line Options
Section 2.2. Environment Variables
Section 2.3. Lexical Conventions
Section 2.4. Literals
Section 2.5. Variables
Section 2.6. Operators
Section 2.7. Methods
Section 2.8. Control Structures
Section 2.9. Object-Oriented Programming
Section 2.10. Security
Chapter 3. Built-in Library Reference
Section 3.1. Predefined Variables
Section 3.2. Predefined Global Constants
Section 3.3. Built-in Functions
Section 3.4. Built-in Library
Chapter 4. Standard Library Reference
Section 4.1. Standard Library
Chapter 5. Ruby Tools
Section 5.1. Standard Tools
Section 5.2. Additional Tools
Section 5.3. Ruby Application Archive
Chapter 6. Ruby Updates
Section 6.1. Summary of Changes
Section 6.2. Changes from 1.6.5 to 1.7.1
Section 6.3. The Future of Ruby
Section 6.4. Participate in Ruby