说明：  《Ruby编程语言》详细介绍了Ruby 1.8和1.9版本各方面的内容。在对Ruby进行了简要的综述之后，《Ruby编程语言》详细介绍了以下内容：Ruby的句法和语法结构，数据结构和对象，表达式和操作符，语句和控制结构，方法、proc、lambda和闭包，反射和元编程，Ruby平台。《Ruby编程语言》还包含对Ruby平台上丰富的API的详尽介绍，并用带有详尽注释的代码演示了Ruby进行文本处理、数字运算、集合、输入/输出、网络开发和并发编程的功能。
(" Ruby Programming Language" details the contents of Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 versions of all parties. After a brief to review Ruby, " Ruby Programming Language" details the following: Ruby' s syntax and grammatical structures, data structures and objects, expressions and operators, statements and control structures, methods, proc, lambda and closures, reflection and meta-programming, Ruby platform. " Ruby Programming Language" also contains a rich API of the Ruby platform, detailed descriptions, and use the code annotated with detailed demonstration of Ruby for text processing, numeric computation, collection, input/output, network development and concurrent programming features.)