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Finding Ruby

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As mentioned in my previous post, this blog will record my progress of learning Ruby and Ruby On Rails. I remembering reading somewhere that to use Ruby On Rails, one needs to know the Ruby programming language.

I started off by making a search for “Ruby Quick Start” on the Google search engine. This returned me a list of around 15 sites but unluckily I could not find anything that could get me

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Ways To Run Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerHaving come from a Java background, I thought these series of slides – 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby, would be useful. I went through them but did not follow much, for now. I shall come back to this later.

So how do I get started with Ruby? An online version of the first edition of Programming Ruby –

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Ruby Nuts and Bolts

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as they should not be defined in a method – more of this later). Ruby lets you alter the value of a constant, although this will generate a warning message.

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Text Editors and IDEs for Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Which text editor should I use for Ruby? In your Ruby installation there is a built-in text editor ‘SciTE’

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Simple Constructs in Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as

Loops like the while are available. Again, the example below illustrates the same.# Loops
var = 0
while var < 10 puts var.to_s var += 1 end First Post | Previous | Next Technorati Tags: Simple Constructs in Ruby Blogs linking

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Some Methods in Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileToday, we shall explore

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Arrays in Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in

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Writing One’s Own Methods in Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in

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Writing One’s Own Class in Ruby

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in

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Ruby on Rails

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What have I found out so far? Definition of RubyRuby Windows InstallerInteractive Ruby – Open a new DOS window and type irb –simple-prompt A prompt appears as Run a Ruby program by typing ruby hello.rbLearnt some features of Ruby like comments, naming rules, variables, constants, strings etc.Various Text Editors/IDEs like SciTE, NotePad2Constructs like the if else and whileSome methods in

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Building an application with Ruby on Rails – Controllers

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What have I found out so far? A simple understanding of Ruby programming languageGetting started with Ruby on RailsIn my previous post, we created the jauth application’s directory structure. Most of our development work will be creating and editing files in the C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\jauth\app subdirectories. The controllers subdirectory is where Rails looks to find controller classes. A

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