This guide covers the following topic: What is ruby, Getting started,
Simple examples, Strings, Regular expressions, Arrays, Back to the simple
examples, Control structures, Iterators, Object-oriented thinking, Methods,
Classes, Inheritance, Redefinition of methods, Access control, Singleton
methods, Modules, Procedure objects, Variables, Global variables, Instance
variables, Local variables, Class constants, Exception processing: rescue,
Exception processing:ensure, Accessors, Object initialization and Nuts and
bolts.
This book is currently broken down into
several sections and is intended to be read sequentially. Topics covered
includes: Notation conventions, Basic Ruby, Ruby Semantic reference, Built in
Classes, Standard Library.
This book is the only Rails book that
does test-driven development the entire time, an approach highly recommended by
the experts but which has never been so clearly demonstrated before. Finally, by
including Git, GitHub, and Heroku in the demo examples, the author really gives
you a feel for what it’s like to do a real-world project. The tutorial’s code
examples are not in isolation.