Ruby Handbook

This guide gives a tour of various features of the Ruby programming language. The primary audience for this tour is those developers who have already programmed before with a different language and want to get a taste of Ruby. After finishing this guide, you should feel comfortable learning Rails.

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Ruby's Hash is a Swiss-Army Knife

A Hash is a built-in data structure in Ruby that maps values to keys and has a constant-time O(1) lookup. This article shows the capabilities of this simple, but equally powerful tool. We’ll start with the basics but also cover some obscure but equally useful features of hash.

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Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas: A Beginner's Guide to Closures and Anonymous Functions in Ruby

Closures and anonymous functions are very useful concepts, especially in functional programming. Ruby makes working with them a pleasure via its flavors like blocks, procs, and lambdas. This post provides an in-depth tutorial and shows the subtle differences between them.

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