Topics Covered

• Chapter 1: An Overview Of Ruby
  1. What is Ruby?
  2. Ruby History
  3. The Ruby Interactive Shell
  4. Language Components
  5. Numbers
  6. Simple Input and Output
  7. Strings
  8. The Class Class
  9. Comments
  10. Loops
  11. Arrays
  12. Hashes
  13. Iterators with Arrays and Hashes
  14. Decision Making
  15. Regular Expressions
  16. The case Construct
  17. Functions
  18. Object Orientation in Ruby
  19. Command Line Arguments
  20. Symbols
  21. Using Hashes as Function Arguments
  22. Odds and Ends
• Chapter 2: Classes
  1. Defining a New Class
  2. Class Creation
  3. Using Objects
  4. Defining Operator Methods
  5. Inheritance
  6. self
  7. Access Levels - public
  8. Access Levels - private
  9. Access Levels - protected
  10. Access Levels - Specification
  11. Class Data and Class Methods
  12. Variables and Scope
  13. Special Global Variables
  14. Documentation
  15. Built-in Classes
• Chapter 3: Input and Output
  1. I/O
  2. Reading from the Standard Input
  3. Writing to the Standard Output
  4. Reading and Writing Disk Files
  5. Reading Files Using Iterators
  6. Capturing Data About Files
  7. Processing Directories
• Chapter 4: Exceptions
  1. Introduction
  2. Exceptions
  3. Handling Exceptions
  4. Multiple Rescue Clauses
  5. Exceptions Are Classes
  6. ensure
  7. retry
  8. raise
  9. Creating Your Own Exceptions
  10. catch and throw
• Chapter 5: Modules
  1. ntroduction
  2. Disambiguation of Libraries
  3. Modules
  4. Mixins
  5. Using the Comparable Module
  6. yield
  7. Using the Enumerable Module
  8. Proc Objects
  9. Closures
  10. 1File Organization
• Chapter 6: Strings
  1. Review
  2. Strings Are References
  3. The Selection Operator, [ ]
  4. Index Methods
  5. Numerical Methods
  6. squeeze
  7. dump
  8. concat
  9. The upto Method
  10. Substituting
  11. Processing a Line at a Time
• Chapter 7: Applications Areas
  1. An Introduction to CGI
  2. An HTML Front-End
  3. HTML Rendering
  4. Contacting the Server
  5. Server Issues
  6. The CGI Program
  7. CGI Output
  8. Reading Files
  9. Exercises
• Chapter 8: Graphical User Interfaces
  1. Event Driven Programming
  2. The Button Widget
  3. More Widgets
  4. TkEntry
  5. TkRadioButton
  6. TkCheckButton
  7. TkText
  8. A Calculator Example
• Chapter 9: Rails
  1. What is Rails?
  2. Using Gem
  3. Starting With Rails
  4. Model View Controller
  5. URL Requests in Rails
  6. Embedded Ruby
  7. Linking Pages Together
  8. Kick Starting a Rails App
  9. Summary
• Appendix A: Date Classes
  1. Telling Time
  2. Date Objects
  3. DateTime
  4. ParseDate
  5. strftime