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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

Comprehensive Ruby Programming

By : Jordan Hudgens
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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

Comprehensive Ruby Programming

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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.
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Using the select method

The select method is a powerful method that automatically iterates through a collection in a Ruby program and extracts the values you want to retrieve. Enumerators are a fun and powerful way of working with collections in Ruby, and after you get used to implementing the methods, you'll be shocked at how efficient it is to integrate advanced functionality with a limited amount of code.

Before going into the section, I'm going to ask you a question. Say, you are given an array of integers and want to grab only the even integers. How can you do that in Ruby?

If you're coming from other programming languages, you would probably use a while loop to iterate through each element, and would check if that element meets the condition of being an even integer.

However, in Ruby, we don't have to go through all that trouble because we can use the...

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