 | Level: Intermediate Pat Eyler (pat.eyler@gmail.com), Independent Author, Consultant
03 Jan 2006 This tutorial presents four members of Ruby's standard library: RDoc, WEBrick, dRuby, and REXML. Learning to use the standard library more effectively will help improve your Ruby code and let you concentrate on the important parts of your code.
In this tutorial
The past several tutorials in this series ("Test-first Ruby programming," "Profiling and optimizing Ruby code," "Debugging Ruby programs 101," and "Automating tasks with Rake"), have discussed some important libraries from Ruby's standard library (and one, Rake, that appears headed for inclusion into the standard library). This tutorial will cover four important members of Ruby's standard library.
Prerequisites
See System requirements
System requirements
Because we're covering four libraries from the Ruby standard library, you won't need anything more than Ruby installed on your system. You'll be able to complete this tutorial on any Microsoft® Windows® or UNIX®-like system (including Mac OS X and Linux®) that has Ruby installed.
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