Complete Guide to Ruby

Course details

Ruby, the popular object-oriented open-source programming language, is a great place to start learning programming or web development. You can use it to write interactive programs or to build scripts to speed up workflows and common tasks. In this course, instructor Kevin Skoglund covers everything new and experienced developers need to know to code with Ruby, from core object types and control structures to object-oriented programming with classes and modules. Along the way, Kevin outlines best practices and practical examples through a series of fun coding challenges. By the end of this course, you’ll be prepared to start coding in Ruby to define your own custom methods with loops and conditional logic.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn Ruby
02 - Using GitHub Codespaces

1. Get Started with Ruby

03 - Introducing Ruby
04 - Install Ruby
05 - Using Ruby
06 - Interactive Ruby Shell (IRB)

2. Ruby Object Types

07 - Objects
08 - Variables
09 - Numbers - Integers
10 - Numbers - Floats
11 - Strings
12 - Strings - Escaping and interpolation
13 - Arrays
14 - Array methods
15 - Hashes
16 - Symbols
17 - Booleans
18 - Ranges
19 - Constants
20 - Nil
21 - Challenge - Roman numerals
22 - Solution - Roman numerals

3. Control Structures

23 - About control structures
24 - Conditionals - if, else, elsif
25 - Conditionals - unless
26 - Conditionals - case
27 - Conditionals - Shorthand operators
28 - Loops
29 - Iterators
30 - Challenge - Blanket patterns
31 - Solution - Blanket patterns

4. Ruby Scripting

32 - Identifying Ruby code
33 - Exit a running script
34 - Input and output
35 - Challenge - Guessing game
36 - Solution - Guessing game

5. Dates and Times

37 - Time
38 - Date
39 - Challenge - Birthdate analysis
40 - Solution - Birthdate analysis

6. Enumerables and Code Blocks

41 - Enumerables
42 - Code blocks
43 - Find methods
44 - Map methods
45 - Inject methods
46 - Sort methods
47 - Merge methods
48 - Challenge - Ruby blanks
49 - Solution - Ruby blanks

7. Custom Methods

50 - Define and call methods
51 - Variable scope
52 - Arguments
53 - Argument default values
54 - Using a hash of options
55 - Return value
56 - Return multiple values
57 - Output vs. return values
58 - Challenge - Pig Latin
59 - Solution - Pig Latin

8. Classes

60 - Define a class
61 - Instances
62 - Attributes
63 - Reader writer methods
64 - Attribute methods
65 - Method access control
66 - Initialize method
67 - Challenge - Dice
68 - Solution - Dice

9. Class Attributes and Methods

69 - Class methods
70 - Class attributes
71 - Class reader and writer methods
72 - Challenge - Radio
73 - Solution - Radio

10. Inheritance

74 - Class inheritance
75 - Override and extend
76 - Access the superclass
77 - Challenge - Dungeon dice
78 - Solution - Dungeon dice

11. Modules

79 - Namespacing
80 - Mixins
81 - Load, require, and include
82 - Challenge - To-do list
83 - Solution - To-do list

12. Exceptions

84 - Handle exceptions
85 - Handle specific exceptions
86 - Exception methods
87 - Raise exceptions
88 - Custom exceptions

13. The File System

89 - Input output basics
90 - File system basics
91 - Types of file paths
92 - File permissions

14. Work with Files

93 - Access files
94 - Write to files
95 - Read from files
96 - File pointer
97 - Read or write an entire file
98 - Rename, delete, copy
99 - Examine file details
100 - Challenge - List maker
101 - Solution - List maker

15. Work with Directories

102 - Create directories
103 - Change directories
104 - Entries
105 - Glob
106 - Challenge - Treasure hunt
107 - Solution - Treasure hunt

16. Common Data Formats

108 - CSV
109 - YAML
110 - JSON
111 - XML

17. ERB Templating

112 - Embed Ruby
113 - Binding
114 - Template files
115 - Challenge - Mail merge
116 - Solution - Mail merge

18. Capstone Project

117 - Restaurant finder
118 - Project organization
119 - User input
120 - File storage
121 - List action
122 - Output
123 - Sort the list
124 - Find action
125 - Add action
126 - Completing the project

Conclusion

127 - Next steps