Ruby Hacking Guide

Advanced The RHG is a book that explains how the ruby 1.7.x-1.8.x interpreter (the official C implementation of the Ruby language) works internally. The original book was based on the source code of ruby 1.7.3 so there are a few small differences to the current version of ruby. However, these differences may make the source code simpler to understand and the Ruby Hacking Guide is a good starting point before looking into the ruby source code. The version of the source code used can be downloaded here: http://i.loveruby.net/ja/rhg/ar/ruby-rhg.tar.gz. This project is picking up from where Vincent Isambart and Clifford Escobar have left off , with the aim to translate the outstanding chapters to English to help Ruby hackers understand the internals of the MRI interpreter. Note also the existence of this translation: http://hawthorne-press.com Table of Contents /Preface/ /Introduction/ Part 1: Objects Chapter 1: Ruby language minimum Chapter 2: Objects Chapter 3: Names and name tables Chapter 4: Classes and modules Chapter 5: Garbage collection Chapter 6: Variables and constants Chapter 7: Security Part 2: Syntax analysis Chapter 8: Ruby language details Chapter 9: Yacc crash course Chapter 10: Parser Chapter 11: Context-dependent scanner Chapter 12: Syntax tree construction Part 3: Evaluation Chapter 13: Structure of the evaluator Chapter 14: Context Chapter 15: Methods Chapter 16: Blocks Chapter 17: Dynamic evaluation Part 4: Around the evaluator Chapter 18: Loading Chapter 19: Threads Final chapter: Ruby's future Ruby programming language R 0% __NOTOC__ __NOEDITSECTION__