Ruby Essentials

The Ruby Essentials book is currently under development and is scheduled for completion at the end of November 2007.

• What is Ruby?

1. • The History of Ruby
   • What is Ruby?
   • Why is Ruby so Popular?

• Getting and Installing Ruby
• Simple Ruby Examples
• Commenting Ruby Code
• Understanding Ruby Variables
• Ruby Variable Scope
• Ruby Number Classes and Conversions
• Ruby Ranges
• Understanding Ruby Arrays
• Advanced Ruby Arrays
• Ruby Operators
• Ruby Operator Precedence
• Ruby Math Functions and Methods
• Understanding Ruby Logical Operators
• Ruby Object Oriented Programming
• Ruby Flow Control
• The Ruby case Statement
• Ruby While and Until Loops
• Looping with for and the Ruby Looping Methods
• Ruby Strings - Creation and Basics
• Ruby String Concatenation and Comparison
• Ruby String Replacement, Substitution and Insertion
• Ruby String Conversions
• Ruby File and Directory Handling