Working with Ruby

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
There are a number of features in Ruby that can be used to enhance, extend, test, and distribute your applications. In this course, you'll learn about working with collections such as arrays and hashes and using modules such as enumerable to manage them. The course also explores working with blocks and using features of methods and classes such as the self object and method_missing. You'll also learn about networking in Ruby and completing a Ruby application using comments, code organization, and ruby gems, testing with MiniTest, and application distribution. 

Target Audience
Programmers who want to use features of Ruby to create, test and distribute Ruby applications

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.6

Lesson Objectives

Working with Ruby

start the course

use getters and setters in Ruby

work with structs in Ruby

define variable scope in Ruby

work with arrays in Ruby

work with hashes in Ruby

work with ranges in Ruby

work with sets in Ruby

use mixins in Ruby programs

use modules in Ruby programs

use the enumerable module to traverse and search collections in Ruby

use blocks in Ruby programs

use blocks for iteration in Ruby

use blocks for later execution in Ruby

use procedures in Ruby

use lambda expressions in Ruby

define access control for a |w method in Ruby

use default argument values in Ruby

use variable length arguments in Ruby

implement method name conventions

use method_missing in Ruby

use method aliasing in Ruby

initialize objects in Ruby

use the self object in Ruby

insert comments in Ruby code

organize code in Ruby applications

access and use RubyGems to find and publish gems

use MiniTest to test Ruby code

package and distribute Ruby applications

practice creating and distributing a Ruby application

Course Number:
pg_ruby_a02_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate