Ruby Essentials

The Ruby Essentials book is currently under development and is scheduled for completion at the end of November 2007.

• What is Ruby?
• Getting and Installing Ruby
• Simple Ruby Examples
• Commenting Ruby Code
• Understanding Ruby Variables
• Ruby Variable Scope
• Ruby Number Classes and Conversions
• Ruby Ranges
• Ruby Operators
• Ruby Operator Precedence
• Ruby Math Functions and Methods
• Understanding Ruby Logical Operators
• Ruby Flow Control
• The Ruby case Statement
• Ruby While and Until Loops
• Looping in Ruby - for and the loop Method
• Working with Strings in Ruby