COURSE 5275 | 2-DAY SESSION
Hands-On Ruby Programming

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Course Outline

I. Introduction

• Language examples
• Simple applications

1. Command line arguments
2. Environment variables

• Development tools

II. Elements

• Standard types

1. Fixnum and Bignum
   
2. Float
   
3. Ranges
   

• Strings

1. Literal string types
2. Methods
   

• Operators

1. Assignment
2. Arithmetic
3. Comparison
4. Conditional
   

• Variables

1. Predefined
   
2. User defined
   

• Expressions


III. Control Flow

• If and unless
• Loops
• Case

IV. Methods

• Defining
• Parameters

V. Classes and Objects

• Initialize and new
• Instance methods and attributes
• Class methods and variables
• Access control

1. Public, Private, and Protected
   

• Inheritance

VI. Containers

• Arrays

1. Indexing
2. Enumerating
   

• Hashes

1. Keys
2. Advantages/disadvantages
   

• Iterators
• Blocks

V. Input and Output

• IO and File classes

1. Opening and closing
2. Reading and writing
   

• Dir class


VI. Exceptions

• Exception class
• Handling exceptions
• Raising exceptions
• Catch and throw


VII. Modules

• Namespaces
• Mixins
• Enumerable and other modules


VIII. Classes

• Object class
• Class class
• Reflection


IX. Networking

• Socket level access

1. TCPSocket
2. TCPServer
   

• Higher-level protocol access

1. Net::HTTP
2. Net::SMTP
   
   

X. Threads

• Thread creation
• Thread scheduling
• Mutexes
• Condition variables


XI. Regular Expressions

• Syntax

1. Basic matching
2. Anchors
3. Groups
4. Substitution
5. Lookahead and lookbehind
   

• Methods

1. Regexp class
2. String class
   
   

XII. Miscellaneous

• Special variables
• Executing other processes
• Garbage collection
• Embedded documentation

XIII. Other Classes

• Built-in
• Standard library


XIV. Unit Testing

• Framework
• Structuring tests


XV. Introduction to Rails

• Model-View-Controller
• Active objects
• Embedding Ruby in HTML