Ruby Essentials

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

• What is Ruby?
• Getting and Installing Ruby
• Simple Ruby Examples
• Commenting Ruby Code
• Understanding Ruby Variables
• Ruby Variable Scope
• Ruby Number Classes and Conversions
• Ruby Operators
• Ruby Operator Precedence
• Understanding Ruby Logical Operators
• Ruby Flow Control
• Ruby and the ''case'' Statement
• Looping in Ruby
• Working with Strings in Ruby