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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)

Using push and pop for arrays

A popular way to work with arrays is to push and pop elements. If you've never heard these terms, let's walk through some basic definitions:

  • Pushing is when you add an element to the end of the array
  • Popping is when you remove the last item from the array

These processes are similar to inserting and deleting items, except that the behavior occurs at the end of the array.

Let's walk through these processes with some practical examples. I'm going to start by creating an array with the names of baseball teams:

teams = ["astros", "yankees", "rangers", "mets", "cardinals"] 

Now, if I want to push marlins (which will add the marlins string to the array), I can do it with the following code:

teams.push("marlins") 

If you check the elements in our teams array, you can see that...