The Ruby Workshop

Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Akshat Paul, Peter Philips and Dániel Szabó Szabó

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|Jan 2019

E-Book €27.99Institutions €120.95

Description

Get to grips with the fundamentals of the Ruby programming language and learn how to build your own applications with the help of real-world examples and hands-on activities

Key Features

Learn the fundamentals of Ruby object-oriented programming (OOP)
Use the Ruby on Rails framework to build interactive web applications
Discover how to quickly build complex programs with fewer lines of code

Book Description

The beauty of Ruby is its readability and expressiveness. Ruby hides away a lot of the complexity of programming, allowing you to work quickly and 'do more' with fewer lines of code. This makes it a great programming language for beginners, but learning any new skill can still be a daunting task. If you want to learn to code using Ruby, but don't know where to start, The Ruby Workshop will help you cut through the noise and make sense of this fun, flexible language.

You'll start by writing and running simple code snippets and Ruby source code files. After learning about strings, numbers, and booleans, you'll see how to store collections of objects with arrays and hashes. You'll then learn how to control the flow of a Ruby program using boolean logic.

The book then delves into OOP and explains inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Gradually, you'll build your knowledge of advanced concepts by learning how to interact with external APIs, before finally exploring the most popular Ruby framework ? Ruby on Rails ? and using it for web development.

Throughout this book, you'll work on a series of realistic projects, including simple games, a voting application, and an online blog. By the end of this Ruby book, you'll have the knowledge, skills and confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious projects with Ruby.

What you will learn

Master the syntax and features of Ruby to build useful applications
Use common design patterns to simplify code and improve efficiency
Understand how to implement object-oriented programming with Ruby
Explore ways to fetch, process, and output data
Work with public APIs and create reusable RubyGems
Debug code to troubleshoot application behavior
Create interactive web applications with Ruby on Rails

Who this book is for

The Ruby Workshop is designed for anyone who is new to Ruby and wants a practical introduction to the language. Whether you're completely new to programming, or have experience in another language and want to broaden your skillset, this book will quickly get you up and running.

Writing and Running Ruby Programs
Ruby Data Types and Operations
Program Flow
Ruby Methods
Object-Oriented Programming with Ruby
Modules and Mixins
Introduction to Ruby Gems
Debugging with Ruby
Ruby Beyond the Basics I
Ruby Beyond the Basics II
Introduction to Ruby on Rails I
Introduction to Ruby on Rails II

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-83864-887-9

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2019

Language: English

Pages: 544

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