Ruby Training Course

Ruby Training course is designed for those who want to become proficient with the Ruby programming language.

Ruby Training course doesn't assume any previous programming experience. For those coming to Ruby from another language, the instructor will draw the parallels and point out the differences.

The class has inspired me to continue to learn more about Ruby and Ruby on Rails. - Stanford

The instructor was good at explaining everything and answering questions. He was very knowledgable about Ruby . - Xerox

The instructor was great! And very helpful!!! - Xerox Corp.

Strings and Methods

• Strings and Embedded Evaluation
• Methods
• Numbers
• Testing a Condition: if ... then 

Classes and Objects

• Instances and Instance Variables
• Constructors – new and initialize
• Inspecting Objects

Class Hierarchies

• Superclasses and Subclasses 

Accessors, Attributes, Class Variables

• Accessor Methods
• Attribute Readers and Writers
• Attributes Create Variables
• Calling Methods of a Superclass
• Class Variables 

Arrays

• Using Arrays
• Creating Arrays
• Multi-Dimensional Arrays
• Iterating Over Arrays
• Indexing Into Arrays 

Hashes

• Creating Hashes
• Indexing Into A Hash
• Hash Operations 

Loops and Iterators

• For Loops
• Blocks
• While Loops
• While Modifiers
• Until Loops 

Conditional Statements

• If..Then..Else
• And..Or..Not
• If..Elsif
• Unless
• If and Unless Modifiers
• Case Statements 

Modules and Mixins

• A Module Is Like A Class...
• Module Methods
• Modules as Namespaces
• Module 'Instance Methods'
• Included Modules or 'Mixins'
• Including Modules From Files
• Pre-Defined Modules
  

Files and Data

• Saving Data
• YAML
• Files
• Moving On...