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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

By : Jordan Hudgens
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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

By: Jordan Hudgens

Overview of this book

Ruby is a powerful, general-purpose programming language that can be applied to any task. Whether you are an experienced developer who wants to learn a new language or you are new to programming, this book is your comprehensive Ruby coding guide. Starting with the foundational principles, such as syntax, and scaling up to advanced topics such as big data analysis, this book will give you all of the tools you need to be a professional Ruby developer. A few of the key topics are: object-oriented programming, built-in Ruby methods, core programming skills, and an introduction to the Ruby on Rails and Sinatra web frameworks. You will also build 10 practical Ruby programs. Created by an experienced Ruby developer, this book has been written to ensure it focuses on the skills you will need to be a professional Ruby developer. After you have read this book, you will be ready to start building real-world Ruby projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

The Ruby lambda tutorial

Similar to procs, lambdas allow you to store functions inside a variable and call the method from other parts of a program. In this lesson, we will discuss lambdas and show how to integrate them into a Ruby program.

To get started, I'll use the same example as the previous section, but with a different syntax.

full_name = lambda { |first, last| first + " " + last } 

You can also call lambdas in the same way as procs:

p full_name["jordan", "hudgens"] 

Notice that the implementation is nearly identical to using procs, with the only difference being the use of the lambda word instead of Proc.new.

Stabby lambdas

In real-world projects, it's a common practice to use...