Ruby Hacking Guide [Online]

This book explores several themes with the following goals in mind: To have knowledge of the structure of ruby; to gain knowledge about language processing systems in general; to acquire skills in reading source code.

Book Description

Topics included: A Minimal Introduction to Ruby • Objects • Names and name tables • Classes and modules • Garbage collection • Variables and constants • Security • Ruby Language Details • yacc crash course • Parser • Finite-state scanner • Syntax tree construction • Structure of the evaluator • Context • Methods • Blocks • Dynamic evaluation • • Loading • Threads.

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