Ruby Programming Essentials

Ruby Essentials provides a concise and easy to follow guide to learning Ruby. Everything from installing Ruby and the basics of the language through to topics such as arrays, file handling and object-oriented programming are covered, all combined with easy to understand code examples which serve to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

Ruby Essentials is designed to be of equal use both to those experienced in other programming languages and to novices who have chosen Ruby as their "first programming language".