List of Tables

Chapter 1. Bootstrapping your Ruby literacy

Table 1.1. Synopsis of key elements of Ruby syntax for Ruby literacy bootstrapping puposes

Table 1.2. Summary of commonly used Ruby command-line switches

Chapter 2. Objects, methods, and local variables

Table 2.1. Examples of Ruby expressions and the values to which they evaluate

Table 2.2. Sample method signatures with required, optional, and default-valued arguments

Chapter 3. Organizing objects with classes

Table 3.1. Summary of the attr_* family of getter/setter creation methods

Chapter 5. The default object (self), scope, and visibility

Table 5.1. How the current object (self) is determined

Chapter 6. Control-flow techniques

Table 6.1. Common exceptions

Chapter 7. Built-in essentials

Table 7.1. Summary of literal constructors for built-in Ruby classes that have them

Table 7.2. Methods with operator-style syntactic sugar calling notation

Table 7.3. Mapping sample expressions to their evaluation results and boolean values

Chapter 8. Strings, symbols, and other scalar objects

Table 8.1. Common arithmetic expressions and their evaluative results

Table 8.2. Common time and date format specifiers

Chapter 9. Collection and container objects

Table 9.1. Summary of common array query methods

Table 9.2. Common hash query methods and their meanings

Chapter 11. Regular expressions and regexp-based string operations

Table 11.1. Regular expression anchors