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Ruby module R050
Ruby - General
Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module R050. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only
Background Ruby is an object oriented scripting language that
has Perl 5 to thank for much of its background - but it
removes some of the complexities of Perl and is a much
more modern and compact language. Although it has other
uses, the vast majority of Ruby is used via "Ruby on
Rails" which is a web development framework that pulls
together web page design, databases and code into a system
in which web applications can be quickly developed by those
with the knowledge, and they can then easily maintain them. Related technical and longer articles Converting to Ruby? Start hereRor - Ruby on Rails
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Those of you with whom I'm in touch from time to time will know that in the summer I was laid low with ear and balance problems, and took ... | 2015-11-27 | 2504 | Learning to program in ... At Well House Consultants, we offer courses at two levels in a number of program- ming languages. Our "learning to program in ..." courses are for delegates who have never programmed before, or who are rusty, who lack confidence, or want a refresher of the basic principles. Our "... programming" courses ... | 2015-07-14 (longest) | 4294 | A bright new gem - updated Ruby training We've been running Ruby courses for a number of years, and in that time we've seen the language move up from being a one-application platform (Ruby on Rails) to a whole lot wider uses. Still Rails, but also many other data handling tasks, web site checking tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, Watir web ... | 2014-09-16 | 3799 | Ruby Documentation through rdoc There are three vital elements in any code of significnat size that you write.
• There's the code itself
• There are programmer's comments which provide an overview of the internals and remarks on how you've done things, why certain decisions were made, known issues for future maintainers, ... | 2012-07-14 | 2605 | Ruby on Rails - a sample application to teach you how The Ruby on Rails Framework is a great way to put bolt web applications together quickly - but it can be overwhelming when you come to do it for the first time. There's a steep learning curve with all the various elements to put together to make up the whole.
We have a first (tiny!) demonstration in ... | 2012-06-23 (longest) | 3158 | Ruby training - some fresh examples for string handling applications Ruby's a great language. No - let me rephrase that "Ruby's a fantastic language" ... for many tasks such as "data munging" - handling / manipulating large flows of data, in all sorts of ways. But in my training role, I come across far more people using Ruby on Rails, Selenium and Watir than Ruby for ... | 2011-02-10 | 2866 | Ruby - how does it compare and where is it the right language? I heard Ruby described as "Perl Five and a Half" - and I thought "how apt".
Perl is an excellent programming language - it's especially excellent as glueware or middleware, where it melds together differing technologies, protocols, utilities and other programs to provide a total solution. But Perl's ... | 2010-07-15 (longer) | 2826 | Ruby - training for automated testing users Another one for our FAQ, perhaps?
Q: I have a question about the course 'Learning to Program in Ruby - training course'. I would like to know whether this course can be attended by people who don't have any Programming Knowledge or experience, and also whether this course can be helpful for Manual Testers ... | 2010-06-25 | 2227 | Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses The following programming courses are all booking well, but still have good availability:
PHP - starting 6th July
Ruby - starting 14th July
Lua - starting 10th August
Python - starting 17th August
Also Deploying LAMP (Linux, Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP/Perl) from 20th July. Can be taken as separate Linux ... | 2009-06-11 | 2104 | Ruby Programming and Rails - 4 different courses in one Week commencing Monday, 13th July ... is Ruby week!
If you're looking to learn to program in Ruby, you'll want to attend our four day Learning to Program in Ruby course.
If you're already a programmer, but in another programming language, and you need to convert to Ruby, start on the Tuesday and take ... | 2009-03-26 |
Examples from our training material
amazing | Initial Demo - finding matching lines in a file | col2 | Simple Ruby Program - read, calculate, output | eight | log file analysis | five | if elif else ... and while | four | prompt, read, echo, calculate | googletrace | Where has Googlebot crawled? | latest_log | Sample Application - Read and analyse a web access log file | one | Hello world and elsewhere | pmf | Subclass, Inheritance, Polymorphism, static methods, factories ... | rs06 | All together - class, factory, comparable, exception, files, strings, arrays | seven | Simple file parsing | six | loop showing iterations | three | read - calculate - output | two | calculation, coercion, etc |
Background information
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Topics covered in this module
What is Ruby? What is Ruby used for? What sort of language is Ruby?
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