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~ Contents ~

  1. About this Book
  2. Kon’nichi wa, Ruby
    1. Opening This Book
    2. The Dog Story
    3. The Red Sun Rises
    4. How Books Start
  3. A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)
    1. Language and I MEAN Language
    2. The Parts of Speech
    3. If I Haven’t Treated You Like a Child Enough Already
    4. An Example to Help You Grow Up
    5. And So, The Quick Trip Came To An Eased, Cushioned Halt
  4. Floating Little Leaves of Code
    1. The Leaf as a Status Symbol in Ambrose
    2. Small and Nearly Worthless
    3. Chaining Delusions Together
    4. The Miracle of Blocks
  5. Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream
    1. This One’s For the Disenfranchised
    2. A Castle Has Its Computers
    3. The Continued Story of My Daughter’s Organ Instructor
    4. The Goat Wants to Watch a Whole Film
    5. The Theft of the Lottery Captain
    6. Them What Make the Rules
    7. Them What Live the Dream
  6. Downtown
    1. If I Were Looking For a Vehicle
    2. Meanwhile, The Porcupine Stops To Fill-Up
    3. A Sponsored Dragon-Slaying
    4. So, Let’s Be Clear: The Porcupine Is Now To The Sea
    5. Walking, Walking, Walking, Walking and So Forth
    6. Just Stopping To Assure You That the Porcupine Hasn’t Budged
    7. I’m Out
  7. When You Wish Upon a Beard
  8. Heaven’s Harp

+ Expansion Paks +

  1. The Tiger’s Vest (with a Basic Introduction to Irb)

~ Adverrtissements ~

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+ See Also +

  1. Dwemthy's Array: the official site for the (Poignant) Guide's own MINI_ADVENTURE.
  2. The Pre-eventualist

Lost foxes in Chapter 6. Downtown. Such juicy metaprogramming and class design!

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Read This Paragraph

At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again.

And This Paragraph Too

This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yet—hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.

But Don't Read This One!

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike License. So, yes, please distribute it and print it and read it leisurely in your housecoat. In fact, there will be a contest at the end of the book for Best Housecoat. It’s a coveted award and you should feel honored to even read about it! (Especially if you are reading about it in your soon-to-be-prize-winning housecoat.)

Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Paragraph

I’ll try not to feel utterly rejected if this book doesn’t capture your fancy. I might experience a few long days of emptiness, accompanied with profuse weeping, but other than that I’ll be fine. It’s at least comforting to know that the following fine texts cover my topic and will doubtless fill you with Ruby lust:

Now, if you can’t seem to find the contents link on the left-hand side of the page, then here’s a link to the first page of the (Poignant) Guide. If you want to venture onto my other projects, go whytheluckystiff.net.

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