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diff --git a/ruby.1 b/ruby.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b066804716 --- /dev/null +++ b/ruby.1 @@ -0,0 +1,323 @@ +.\"Ruby is copyrighted by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby.club.co.jp>. +.\" +.\"This source is distributed under the conditions blow: +.\" +.\" 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of +.\" the software without restriction, provided that you do not modify +.\" the original distribution files. +.\" +.\" If you want to distribute the modified version in any way, contact +.\" the author. +.\" +.\" 2. You may distribute the software in object code or executable +.\" form, provided that you distribute it with instructions on where +.\" to get the software. +.\" +.\" 3. You may modify the software in any way, provided that you do not +.\" distribute the modified version. +.\" +.\" 4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other +.\" software (possibly commercial). But some files in the distribution +.\" are not written by the author, so that they are not under this terms. +.\" They are gc.c(partly)，utils.c(partly), regex.[ch]，fnmatch.[ch]， +.\" glob.c, st.[ch] and somme files under the ./missing directory. See +.\" each files for the copying condition. +.\" +.\" 5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as +.\" output from the software do not automatically fall under the +.\" copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them, +.\" and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this +.\" software. +.\" +.\" 6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR +.\" PURPOSE. +.\" +.\" $Id$ +.\" +.na +.TH RUBY 1 "ruby 1.0" "19/Sep/97" "Ruby Programmers Reference Guide" +.SH NAME +ruby - Interpreted scripting language +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ruby \c + [ \c +.BI -version \c + ] [ \c +.BI -c \c + ] [ \c +.BI -w \c + ] [ \c +.BI -d \c + ] [ \c +.BI -l \c + ] + [ \c +.BI -p \c + ] [ \c +.BI -n \c + ] [ \c +.BI -a \c + ] [ \c +.BI -s \c + ] [ \c +.BI -0 "[digit]"\c + ] + [ \c +.BI -K "c"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -e "script"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -F "pattern"\c + ] + [ \c +.BI -i "[extension]"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -I "dir"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -r "filename"\c + ] + [ \c +.BI -S \c + ] [ \c +.BI -v \c + ] [ \c +.BI -x "[dir]"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -X "[dir]"\c + ] [ \c +.BI -y \c +] + [ \c +.BI -- \c + ] [ programfile ] [ argument ] ... + +.SH PREFACE +Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy +object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text +files and to do system management tasks (as in perl). It is simple, +straight-forward, and extensible. +.PP +If you want a language for easy object-oriented programming, or you +don't like the PERL ugliness, or you do like the concept of lisp, but +don't like too much parentheses, ruby may be the language of the +choice. +.SH DESCRIPTION +Ruby's features are as follows: +.TP +.B "\(bu Interpretive" +Ruby is the interpreted language, so you don't have to +recompile to execute the program written in ruby. +.TP +.B "\(bu Variables have no type (dynamic typing)" +Variables in ruby can contain data of any type. You don't have +to worry about variable typing. Consequently, it has weaker +compile time check. +.TP +.B "\(bu No declaration needed" +You can use variables in your ruby programs without any +declarations. Variable name itself denotes its scope (local, +global, instance, etc.) +.TP +.B "\(bu Simple syntax" +Ruby has simple syntax influenced slightly from Eiffel. +.TP +.B "\(bu No user-level memory management" +Ruby has automatic memory management. Objects no longer +referenced from anywhere are automatically collected by the +garbage collector built in the interpreter. +.TP +.B "\(bu Everything is object" +Ruby is the pure object-oriented language from the beginning. +Even basic data like integers are treated uniformly as objects. +.TP +.B "\(bu Class, inheritance, methods" +Of course, as a O-O language, ruby has basic features like +classes, inheritance, methods, etc. +.TP +.B "\(bu Singleton methods" +Ruby has the feature to define methods for certain specified +object. For example, you can define a press-button action for +certain GUI button by defining a singleton method for the +button. Or, you can make up your own prototype based object +system using singleton methods (if you want to). +.TP +.B "\(bu Mix-in by modules" +Ruby does not have the multiple inheritance intentionally. IMO, +It is the source of confusion. Instead, ruby has modules to +share the implementation across the inheritance tree. It is +often called "Mix-in." +.TP +.B "\(bu Iterators" +Ruby has iterators for loop abstraction. +.TP +.B "\(bu Closures" +In ruby, you can objectify the procedure. +.TP +.B "\(bu Text processing and regular expression" +Ruby has bunch of text processing features like in perl. +.TP +.B "\(bu Bignums" +With bu ilt-in bignums, you can calculate factorial(400), for +example. +.TP +.B "\(bu Exception handling" +As in Java(tm). +.TP +.B "\(bu Direct access to OS" +Ruby can call most of system calls on UNIX boxes. It can be +used in system programming. +.TP +.B "\(bu Dynamic loading" +You can load object files into ruby interpreter on-the-fly, on +most of UNIXes. +.PP +.SH Command line options +Ruby interpreter accepts following command-line options (switches). +Basically they are quite similar to those of Perl. +.TP +.B -0digit +specifies the input record separator ($/) as an octal number. +If no digits given, the null character is the separator. Other +switches may follow the digits. -00 turns ruby into paragraph +mode. -0777 makes ruby read whole file at once as a single +string, since there is no legal character with that value. +.TP +.B -a +turns on auto-split mode when used with -n or -p. In auto-split +mode, ruby executes +.nf +.ne 1 +\& $F = $_.split +at beginning of each loop. +.TP +.B -c +causes ruby to check the syntax of the script and exit without +executing. If there is no syntax error, ruby will print "Syntax +OK" to the standard output. +.TP +.B -Kc +specifies KANJI (Japanese character) code-set. +.TP +.B +-d --debug +turns on debug mode. $DEBUG will set TRUE. +.TP +.B -e script +specifies script from command-line. if -e switch specified, +ruby will not look for a script filename in the arguments. +.TP +.B -F regexp +specifies input field separator ($;). +.TP +.B -i extension +specifies in-place-edit mode. The extension, if specified, is +added to old filename to make a backup copy. +example: +.nf +.ne 8 +\& % echo matz > /tmp/junk +\& % cat /tmp/junk +\& matz +\& % ruby -p -i.bak -e '$_.upcase!' /tmp/junk +\& % cat /tmp/junk +\& MATZ +\& % cat /tmp/junk.bak +\& matz +.TP +.B -I directory +used to tell ruby where to load the library scripts. Directory +path will be added to the load-path variable ($:'). +.TP +.B -l +enables automatic line-ending processing, which means firstly +set $\ to the value of $/, and secondly chops every line read +using chop!. +.TP +.B -n +causes ruby to assume the following loop around your script, +which makes it iterate over filename arguments somewhat like +sed -n or awk. +.nf +.ne 3 +\& while gets +\& ... +\& end +.TP +.B -p +acts mostly same as -n switch, but print the value of variable +$_ at the each end of the loop. +example: +.nf +.ne 2 +\& % echo matz | ruby -p -e '$_.tr! "a-z", "A-Z"' +\& MATZ +.TP +.B -r filename +causes ruby to load the file using [4]require. It is useful +with switches -n or -p. +.TP +.B -s +enables some switch parsing for switches after script name but +before any filename arguments (or before a --). Any switches +found there is removed from ARGV and set the corresponding +variable in the script. +example: +.nf +.ne 3 +\& #! /usr/local/bin/ruby -s +\& # prints "true" if invoked with `-xyz' switch. +\& print "true\n" if $xyz +.TP +.B -S +makes ruby uses the PATH environment variable to search for +script, unless if its name begins with a slash. This is used to +emulate #! on machines that don't support it, in the following +manner: +.nf +.ne 2 +\& #! /usr/local/bin/ruby +\& # This line makes the next one a comment in ruby \ +\& exec /usr/local/bin/ruby -S $0 $* +On some systems $0 does not always contain the full pathname, +so you need -S switch to tell ruby to search for the script if +necessary. +To handle embedded spaces or such, A better construct than $* +would be ${1+"$@"}, but it does not work if the script is being +interpreted by csh. +.TP +.B -v --verbose +enables verbose mode. Ruby will prints its version at the +beginning, and set the variable `$VERBOSE' to TRUE. Some +methods prints extra messages if this variable is TRUE. If this +switch is given, and no other switches present, ruby quits +after printing its version. +.TP +.B --version +prints the version of ruby executable. +.TP +.B -w +enables verbose mode without printing version message at the +beginning. It set the variable `$VERBOSE' to TRUE. +.TP +.B -x[directory] +tells ruby that the script is embedded in a message. Leading +garbage will be discarded until the first that starts with "#!" +and contains string "ruby". Any meaningful switches on that +line will applied. The end of script must be specified with +either EOF, ^D (control-D), ^Z (control-Z), or reserved word +__END__.If the directory name is specified, ruby will switch to +that directory before executing script. +.TP +.B -X directory +causes ruby to switch to the directory. +.TP +.B -y --yydebug +turns on compiler debug mode. ruby will print bunch of internal +state messages during compiling scripts. You don't have to +specify this switch, unless you are going to debug the ruby +interpreter itself. +.PP +.SH AUTHOR + Ruby is designed and implemented by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby.club.co.jp>. |