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Ruby User's Guide

About the guide

	What is ruby?
	Getting started
	Simple examples
	Strings
	Regular expressions
	Arrays
	Back to the simple examples
	Control structures
	Iterators
	Object-oriented thinking
	Methods
	Classes
	Inheritance
	Redefinition of methods
	Access control
	Singleton methods
	Modules
	Procedure objects
	Variables
	Global variables
	Instance variables
	Local variables
	Class constants
	Exception processing: rescue
	Exception processing: ensure
	Accessors
	Object initialization
	Nuts and bolts
>	About the guide

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About the guide

This introductory user's guide is mirrored in various places and is available in several translations. The current English language version is kept on rubyist.net. If you come across an out-of-date version, please notify the webmaster where the mirror is hosted.

Document history

Original Japanese version by matz.
First English translation by GOTO Kentaro & Julian Fondren.
Re-translation and added material by Mark Slagell.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License."