Ruby Study Notes: TOC

Ruby Programming

• Introduction
• Installation
  • What is Ruby?
  • How Ruby can help you, in more detail
  • Downloading Ruby and an Editor
  • Ruby Programming Environment
• First Ruby Program
• Features
• Numbers in Ruby
  • Operators and Precedence
  • Difference between or and || operator
• Fun with Strings
• Variables and Assignment
• Summary 1
• Scope
  • Global scope and global variables
  • Built-in global variables
  • Local scope
• Getting Input
• Names in Ruby
• More on Ruby Methods
• Writing own Ruby Methods
  • Bang (!) methods
  • Method names ending with ?
• Summary 2
• Method Missing
• Ruby ri Tool
• More on Strings
  • Listing all methods of a class or object
  • Comparing two strings for equality
  • Using %w
• Simple Constructs
  • Conditional ?:
  • Statement modifiers
  • Case Expressions
  • nil is an Object
  • Some Additional Information
• Ruby Blocks and Procs
• Summary 3
• Ruby Arrays
• Ranges
• Ruby Symbols
• Hashes
  • Using Symbols as Hash Keys
• Random Numbers
• Read/Write files
  • Traversing Directory Trees
  • Random Access
• Summary 4
• Regular Expressions
  • Literal characters
  • The wildcard character . (dot)
  • Character classes
  • Special escape sequences for common character classes
• Writing our own Class
  • Literal Constructors
  • Garbage Collection
  • Class Methods
• Including Other Files
• Ruby Open Classes
• Inheritance
• Overriding Methods
  • Usage of super
  • Redefining methods
• Ruby Overloading Methods
• Summary 5
• Access Control
  • Top-level methods
  • Are instance variables inherited by a sub-class?
• Ruby Time class
• Summary 6
• Exceptions
  • Raising an Exception
  • Handling an Exception
• Duck Typing
• Ruby Syntactic Sugar
• Mutable and Immutable Objects
  • Freezing Objects
• Summary 7
• Object Serialization
• Constants
• Summary 8
• Modules/Mixins
• Self
  • The current/default object
  • Top level context
  • Self inside class and module definitions
  • Self in instance method definitions
  • Self in singleton-method and class-method definitions
• Summary 9

Advanced Ruby

• Socket Programming
  • Basic Networking
  • Port
  • Internet Addresses
  • Sockets
  • Socket classes
  • Threads
  • The Date Time Server and Client
• SMTP class
• Web services
  • Writing a RubyLearning SOAP server and client
• Ruby MySQL Tutorial
• Ruby on Rails
  • MVC
  • Installation
  • Useful Rails Links
• Ruby ActiveRecord and MySQL
• Ruby/Tk
  • Simple Tk applications
  • Logger class
• Unit Testing
• Ruby Tools
  • irb
  • The debugger
  • Profiling
  • ri and RDoc
  • ERb
• Java to Ruby
  • Similarities
  • Differences
• JRuby Tutorial
  • What is JRuby?
  • Download and Setup
  • Where to use JRuby
  • Resources
  • Useful Articles
• Solutions
• Ruby Quirks

Ruby Matters