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General Purpose Language
Ruby
Kit Chan
COMP3351
Programming Languages
November 9, 2007
Outline
Reference
 Introduction
 Ruby is
 Features
 Array
 Loop
 Ruby v.s. Java
 Duck Typing
 Dynamic Typing
 Type Tag Checking
 Functional Programming
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Reference
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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages
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Ruby Official Website
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
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Learning Ruby
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/index.html
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Duck Typing
http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/duck_typing.html
Introduction
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Developed by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, in
Feb, 1993
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First released in 1995
1.8.6 Ruby 1.9 developed March, 2007
 Named
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As a gemstone because of a joke with in
Matsumoto’s friends alluding to Perl’s name
Ruby is
Cross-platform Operating System
 Combines syntax by
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Perl
 Smalltalk-like OO features
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Shares features with
Lisp
 Python
 Dylan
 CLU
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Ruby is
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The interpreted scripting language for
Quick
 Easy OO programming
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designed for programmer productivity
 Straight-forward
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principle of least surprise (POLS)
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behaves in a way that minimizing confusion for
experienced users
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After you learn Ruby very well
Ruby is
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Obedient
>> 'Hello World'
=> "Hello World”
 >> 'blink ' * 4
 => "blink blink blink blink "
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Your Calculator
>> 1+1
=> 2
Or
>> 2**2**2
=> 16
Features
Object-oriented
 Four levels of variables:
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Global
 Instance
 Local
 Constant
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$var
@var
[a-z] or _; var
[A-Z]
Exception handling
 Iterators & closures
 Automatic garbage collecting
 Highly portable
http://tryruby.hobix.com/
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Array
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>> numbers = ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four"]
=> ["zero", "one", "two", "three", "four"]
=> Array
>> numbers[0]
=> "zero"
What arrays do?
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>> numbers[0].class
=> String
>> numbers[0].upcase
=> "ZERO"
>> numbers[0].reverse
=> "orez"
Loop
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If I knew Ruby when I was in grade school…….
>> 100.times do
 .. puts "I won't do that again"
 .. end
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I won't do that again
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=> 100
 My life was going to be much easier
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Ruby v.s. Java- Syntax
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begin_time = Time.now.to_i
i=0
100.times do
i += 1
j=0
10.times do
j += 1
k=0
100.times do
k += 1
puts i.to_s + " + " + j.to_s + " + " + k.to_s
end
end
end
end_time = Time.now.to_i
difference = end_time - begin_time
puts "It took " + difference.to_s + " seconds"
ho = gets
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class test
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
for (int i=0; i<=100 ; i++ )
{
for (int j=0; j<=10 ; j++)
{
for (int k=0; k<=100 ; k++ )
{
System.out.println( i + " + " + j + " + " + k);}}}
long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
long difference = (endTime - startTime)/1000;
System.out.println("It took " + difference + " seconds");
}
}
Ruby v.s. Java
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Performance
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Ruby: 24 – 26 seconds
Java: 1 – 2 seconds
Language
Paradigm
Type
Checking
Java
Imperative
Static
Object-oriented
Generic
Ruby
Imperative
Object-oriented
Functional
Aspect-oriented
Dynamic
(duck)
Duck Typing
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Ruby interpreter is happy to treat it as it were a
duck
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If an object walks and talks like a duck
Duck typing means
An object type is defined by what it can do
 Not by what it is
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Duck typing refers to
less concerned with the class of an object
 more concerned with what methods can be called
on it
 what operations can be performed
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Duck Typing
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we use respond_to?
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Example
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>> puts ('A string'.respond_to? :to_str)
true
=> nil
>> puts (Exception.new.respond_to? :to_str)
true
=> nil
If an object quacks like a duck, just treat it as a
duck….
 We should treat objects to the methods they defin
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Duck Typing
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>> class Duck
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>> class Goose
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.. def quack
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.. def honk
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.. 'Quack!'
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.. 'Honk!'
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.. end
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.. end
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.. def swim
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.. def swim
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.. 'Paddle paddle paddle...'
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.. 'Splash splash splash...'
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.. end
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.. end
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.. end
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.. end
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=> nil
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=> nil
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Duck Typing
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>> class DuckRecording
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.. def quack
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.. play
.. end
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.. def play
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.. 'Quack'
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.. end
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.. end
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=> nil
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>> def make_it_quack(duck)
.. duck.quack
.. end
=> nil
>> puts make_it_quack(Duck.new)
Quack!
>> puts make_it_quack(DuckRecording.new)
Quack
=> nil
>> def make_it_swim(duck)
.. duck.swim
.. end
=> nil
>> puts make_it_swim(Duck.new)
Paddle paddle paddle...
=> nil
>> puts make_it_swim(Goose.new)
Splash splash splash...
=> nil
Add Method to Class Instances
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Add methods to individual class instances
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class Duck
def quack
puts 'Quack!'
end
def swim
puts 'Paddle paddle paddle...'
end
end
d = Duck.new #create new instance of the class
d.quack
#call method
d.swim
#call method
def d.walk
#override existing method with
#new functionality
puts 'I am walking ... walking'
end
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d.walk
=> nil
=> #<Duck:0x6cc7ddc>
Quack!
=> nil
Paddle paddle paddle...
=> nil
=> nil
I am walking ... walking
=> nil
irb(main):022:0>
Dynamic Typing
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Ruby, the data types are not wholly declared on
variable
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Data associated with variables are not known
until the time of execution
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Advantage:
flexibility
 Less work for the programmer
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Type Tag Checking
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Ruby is dynamically typed
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it supports run-time dispatch on tagged data
Takes place at run-time
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values bound in variables can acquire different tags
depending on the execution path
Example
var x
 x :=1
 x :=“hi”
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……………illegal
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binding x to values of inconsistent type
Pure Dynamically typed system allows the
execution
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#declares the name x
#associates int val 1 to name x
#associates the string val “hi” to name x
Type tags are attached to values
Dynamic typing catches errors during program
execution
Example......cont
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Dynamic typing keeps all program values
“tagged”
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Checks the tag before using any value in an
operation
var x :=1
 var y := “hi”
 var z := x + y
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#binds val 1 to x
#binds val “hi” to y
#add x to y
Example......cont
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The value bound to x be a pair (integer, 1)
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The value bound to y be a pair (string, “hi”)
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Attempts to execute the 3rd line,
Checks the type tags integer and string
 If the operation + (addition) is not defined
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error is signaled
Why Ruby?
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High productivity for programmers
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Web Developments
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Execution time is not the main concern
Projects like Ruby on Rails
Functional Programming
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Paradigm treats computation as the evaluation of
mathematical functions
 Emphasize
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on application of functions
Largely being used in academia
 Lambda
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calculus
Forms the foundation for most models of functional programming
Thank you !!