Introduction to Ruby Programming

The Introduction to Ruby Programming training course provides a hands-on introduction to Ruby and the entire Ruby ecosystem designed specifically for engineers responsible for creating, running, and testing software developed in Ruby.

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About this Course

The Introduction to Ruby training Programming course provides a hands-on introduction to Ruby and the entire Ruby ecosystem designed specifically for engineers responsible for creating, running, and testing software developed in Ruby.

Introduction to Ruby begins with a high-level overview of the Ruby language and platform, and compares it to alternate platforms like Java and .NET. The course then progresses into a hands-on examination of the language and writing simple Ruby applications. With the core Ruby programming foundation laid, Introduction to Ruby the course examines things like writing object-oriented Ruby, working with the built-in Ruby libraries and APIs, finding external libraries with Ruby Gems, and testing with Cucumber, Selenium, etc.

Introduction to Ruby can be taught using either Ruby or JRuby.

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Describe the advantages / disadvantages / differences of Ruby compared to other languages
  • Implement a basic Ruby application
  • Understand the structure of the Rails framework
  • Implement a simple unit test using Ruby
  • Understand how to leverage Ruby in a continuous integration environment

Course Outline

  • What is Ruby
  • Setting up Ruby
  • Ruby Basics
  • Developing with Ruby
  • Working with Files
  • Introduction to Test::Unit
  • Introduction to Testing with Cucumber
  • Putting it all together


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