Intro to Ruby Course

Exercises and examples for training in Ruby, taught by Builder Code Works

Course Contents

1. Ruby Language

2. A Brief History of the Ruby Language

3. Installing Ruby

4. How to Execute Ruby Code

5. How to Continue After this Course

6. Object-Oriented Programming Refresher

7. Important Vocabulary

8. Classes, Objects, & Inheritance

9. Ruby Basics

10. Objects

11. Typing

12. Dynamic Classes

13. Core Classes

14. Duck-Typing

15. Data Structure Classes 1. NullObject 1. TrueObject & FalseObject 1. String 1. Integer & Float 1. Array 1. Hash 1. Symbol

16. Variables

17. Ruby Keywords

18. Logic

19. Looping 1. While 1. Until

20. Branching 1. If/Else/Unless 1. Case Statements 1. Logical Operators

21. Collections 1. Iterating with each 1. Moving Inside Collections with skip, next, retry & break 1. Accessing & Modifying Arrays 1. Accessing & Modifying Hashes

22. Organizing Code

23. Encapsulation 1. Methods 1. Modules 1. Classes

24. Object-Oriented Ruby

25. Defining Classes

26. Initializing Classes

27. Class Methods

28. Instance Methods

29. Private Methods

30. Inheritance

31. Overriding Methods

32. Monkey Patching

33. Refinements

34. Best Practices

35. Modular Ruby

36. Variable Scope

37. Project Structure

38. Ruby Version Managers

39. Using Rake

40. Bundler for Project Dependencies

41. Gemfile Setup

42. Ruby Gems

43. How Gems are Installed

44. How to Keep Gems Organized

45. Where to Find Gems

46. Using Bundler

47. Special Purpose Tools

48. Regular Expressions

49. Dates & Times

50. Reading & Writing Files

51. System Input & Output

52. Error Handling

53. Built In Exceptions

54. Rescuing Exceptions

55. Writing Custom Exceptions

56. Testing

57. Libraries

58. Writing Tests with RSpec

59. Cucumber

60. Equality of Objects

61. Metaprogramming

62. Uses for Metaprogramming

63. Metaprogramming techniques

64. Passing Closures

65. Procs & Lambdas

66. Popular Tools

67. Frameworks for the Web

68. Ops Tools

69. Mobile Applications