Free Study Notes on Ruby

Author : Satish Talim
Publication Date : August 31, 2007

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Review:

Satish Talim's Free Study Notes on Ruby is a step-by-step tutorial to programming in Ruby. This book tries to cover almost everything about Ruby: basic syntax, variables, input, classes, objects, methods, arrays, ranges, code blocks, random numbers, file access, object oriented programming, exception handling, object serialization, regular expressions, special classes, Ruby/Tk, Ruby/MySQL and JRuby.

The examples are tested inside MS Windows platform. Fortunately, except for obvious differences in file system structure, the examples can be applied in Linux platform as well. To try the examples, readers are required to install Ruby interpreter first. This book uses SciTE Text Editor as the IDE.

Ubuntu users can install them simply by entering:


My only concern with this book has to do with its lack of structure inside the PDF version. Chapters are not enumerated and pages are only half-filled, bloating the entire document to 310 pages and making document navigation uncomfortable at best.

Intended Audience:

Readers are expected to have a basic programming knowledge. Familiarity with object oriented programming would help but not required. Those who want to learn basic programming skills along with their implementation in Ruby are recommended to read Chris Pine's Learn To Program. The last part with JRuby requires some familiarity with Java.

While this book does not specifically cover Rail, it gives some basic knowledge needed to understand Rails code. Inside this book you will also find numerous references to David Black's Ruby for Rails.

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