Beginning Ruby

Highlights

The main takeaways from ruby are:

• Optimized for Developer Happiness
• Principle of Least Surprise
• Powerful Object-oriented Design
• Cleanly design for your problem’s domain

Skill Development

These are the skills that should be able to be demonstrated at beginner level:

• Setup a ruby environment
• Install libraries (gems)
• Initializing an array variable
• Writing a loop over an array
• Comparing values
• Flow Control statements
• Writing Methods
• Writing and Using Classes
• Test statements in IRB
• Ranges
• File IO
• Serializing data (json, yaml, csv)
• Pulling data from the web with Net::HTTP
• Regular Expressions
• Testing with minitest/unit

General ruby resources

• Ruby Docs
• Ruby Gems
• Ruby Weekly

Tutorial list

TODO: getting a linux+ruby environment with Vagrant

Ruby Koans

Ruby Koans are exercises that introduce you to core concepts of the Ruby language. Through testing, you can manipulate code and ensure you achieve a correct solution.

Zen Koans are the namesake of the project. A Koan is a riddle whose solution helps a student progress toward enlightenment.

Ruby Koans are the best way to get involved in writing ruby as you learn the various concepts. They make a great first introduction for the complete neophyte and the validation they provide through testing is a great ego-stroke to keep you learning.

Big list of resources

The Free Programming Books project has collected a set of resources that may be helpful. If you find them valuable, please list them on this page with your review.

Getting Experience

• Make a script that takes a number argument, and computes fibonacci to that place
• Make a TODO list that writes to files