Learn Web Development with the Ruby on Rails Tutorial Michael Hartl Contents Foreword My former company (CD Baby) was one of the first to loudly switch to Ruby on Rails, and then even more loudly switch back to PHP (Google me to read about the drama). Though I’ve worked my way through many Rails books, this is the one that finally made me “get” it. The linear narrative is such a great format. Enjoy! Derek Sivers (sivers.org) Founder, CD Baby Acknowledgments The Ruby on Rails Tutorial owes a lot to my previous Rails book, RailsSpace, and hence to my coauthor Aurelius Prochazka. I’d like to acknowledge a long list of Rubyists who have taught and inspired me over the years: David Heinemeier Hansson, Yehuda Katz, Carl Lerche, Jeremy Kemper, Xavier Noria, Ryan Bates, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Peter Cooper, Matt Aimonetti, Gregg Pollack, Wayne E. About the author Michael Hartl is the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, the leading introduction to web development with Ruby on Rails. Copyright and license Welcome to the Ruby on Rails Tutorial.
Ruby Programming Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language. Its creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a “Matz,” released it to the public in 1995. Its history is covered here. The book is currently broken down into several sections and is intended to be read sequentially. Table of Contents[edit] Getting started[edit] Overview Installing Ruby Ruby editors Notation conventions Interactive Ruby Mailing List FAQ Basic Ruby[edit] Hello world Strings Alternate quotes Here documents Encoding Introduction to objects Ruby basics Data types — numbers, strings, hashes and arrays Writing methods Classes and objects Exceptions Ruby Semantic reference[edit] See also some rdoc documentation on the various keywords. Built in Classes[edit] This is a list of classes that are available to you by default in Ruby. Available Standard Library Modules[edit] These are parts of Ruby that you have available (in the standard library, or via installation as a gem). Other Libraries[edit] Database Interface Modules GUI Libraries[edit] RubyDoc
The Bastards Book of Ruby Learn to Program, by Chris Pine A Place to Start for the Future Programmer I guess this all began back in 2002. I was thinking about teaching programming, and what a great language Ruby would be for learning how to program. I mean, we were all excited about Ruby because it was powerful, elegant, and really just fun, but it seemed to me that it would also be a great way to get into programming in the first place. Unfortunately, there wasn't much Ruby documentation geared for newbies at the time. Some of us in the community were talking about what such a "Ruby for the Nuby" tutorial would need, and more generally, how to teach programming at all. And it wasn't very good. What saved me was that I made it really easy for people to contact me, and I always tried to help people when they got stuck. A couple of years later, it was getting pretty good. :-) So good, in fact, that I was ready to pronounce it finished, and move on to something else. Thoughts For Teachers About the Original Tutorial Acknowledgements
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