Ruby Programming Course - Ruby Programming Language

The Knowledge Academy Ruby Programming Course 3 day course covers the following topics:

Introduction

This Ruby Programming course is designed to provide candidates with the knowledge to develop and maintain Ruby Scripts.

Ruby is a high level Interpreted, Object Oriented, rapid development language deployed in many scenarios in the modern world.

Pre-Requisites

• An understanding of programming is required, prior to attending this course.

Who Should Attend

• Recommended for Programmers who need to write or maintain scripts in Ruby and projects based on Ruby.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, candidates will learn to:

• Declare variables and initialise them
• Construct expressions with arithmetic, logical and relational operators
• Use iterative type statements
• Use conditional statements
• Read/write files
• Manipulate text using regular expression
• Use and create Ruby Objects
• Use built-in library functions

Course Content

This course covers the following:

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY

• What is Ruby
• What is it used for
• Installing Ruby?
• Ruby Basics - objects, regular expressions, arrays, hashes, Object Orientation

Session 2: RUBY LANGUAGE ELEMENTS

• Variables and constants
• Operators
• Assignments
• Integer, float and string formats
• Single and double quotes
• Here documents
• Labs

Session 3: CONTROL STRUCTURES

• Blocks and if statement
• Boolean and range operators
• Conditionals - if, unless, case
• Loops - while, for in, until
• Break, next, retry and redo
• Labs

Session 4: CLASSES AND OBJECTS

• Objects, classes and methods
• Constructors and attributes
• Instance and class variables
• Local and global variables
• Class and object methods
• Including external files - load and require
• Labs

Session 5: INPUT AND OUTPUT IN RUBY

• Opening and closing files
• Reading from and writing to files
• Labs

Session 6: ARRAYS AND HASHES IN RUBY

• Arrays and hashes
• Building an array
• The %w shortcut
• Nesting arrays
• Hash keys
• Literators
• Labs

Session 7: OBJECT ORIENTATION

• Inheritance
• Base classes and subclasses
• What's inherited
• Overriding
• Abstract classes
• Polymorphism
• Multiple Inheritances
• Class structure
• Visibility
• Labs

Session 8: CLASSES AND OBJECT SCOPING

• Public, private and protected visibility
• Singletons and defs
• Inheritance mixins
• Destructors and garbage collection
• Namespaces and modules
• Hooks
• Freezing objects
• Labs

Session 9: OBJECT ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES

• Clusters of classes
• Programming and method standards
• Formal Methods
• Unified Modelling Language (UML)
• Views

Session 10: STRINGS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

• Meta Characters
• Anchors, literals, character groups and counts
• Matching in Ruby
• Modifiers i, o, x and m
• Pattern matching variables
• Labs

Session 11: SPECIAL VARIABLES AND PSEUDO-VARIABLES

• ARGV and $0
• Special variables
• Environment variables
• Pseudo-variables
• Reserved words in Ruby
• Labs

Session 12: EXCEPTIONS

• Begin and end
• Raise and rescue
• Throw and catch
• Labs