Ruby Glossary

The beginning of our point and click glossary to ruby - we'll see how it goes. We'd like to see some form of feature in the RDOC stuff with user contributions like the PHP manual and if we ever get round to it (unlikely) we'll do some more thinking. If the item below has got a link read it - otherwise put up with our definition. You have been warned!

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myinst.each {|x| print x}
# exactly the same as
myinst::each {|x| print x}
# where each is a method  (uses 'def')

# use in a sub-class
class Thing
 class One
 end
end
# is invoked by
inst = Thing::One.new
# if you use Thing.One it will look for a method

%q  single quoted string
%Q  double quoted string
%w array of tokens
%r regular expression
%x shell command

myarray << 1 # add new element to array
mystring << "add" # faster that mystring += "add"

class Two
...
end
class One < Two
# class One inherits all the methods of class Two
# plus its own methods
...
end

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