Ruby has taken the programming world by storm. With the slow decline of Java and the catalyst of Rails, it has risen to become one of the most popular programming languages, rising to #10 on the TIOBE index and winning their "Programming Language of the Year" award.

Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book covers the Ruby language from the very basics of using puts to put naughty phrases on the screen all the way to serving up your favorite web page from WEBrick or connecting to your favorite web service.

Written in a conversational narrative rather than like a dry reference book, Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is an easy to read, easy to follow guide to all things Ruby.

A Note: In the following book, I will be using Ruby 1.8.5 to test all the Ruby code. Each example can be copied and pasted directly into irb/fxri and it should work famously. I have done so with each one to make sure they run.

Each time I am showing output from irb, you will see a → character followed by the output. Any method or variable name or code/system related text is typeset in this font for easy discernment from other text.

Any time I have found it necessary to differentiate a class object from an instance object, I have erred on the side of standard notation and went with the form of Class#Object (even though it's very ugly and is not what the rest of the civilized world uses).

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About the Author:

Jeremy McAnally is a husband, developer, author, college student, and aspiring panda trainer who resides in Knoxville, TN with his wife.  He enjoys working with Rails, Ruby, and Indian food.  He recently penned this book and currently working on another book with Manning Publications titled Ruby in Practice. 

You can find him at http://www.jeremymcanally.com/, which links to his projects and blogs.

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