Ruby

In Ruby training course, you will learn the basics of the Ruby programming language, and then extend their knowledge to the Ruby object model, built-in classes, string and text handling, code testing, meta programming, and many more subtopics.

Objectives:

• Ruby’s syntax, object model, and major built-in classes
• Basic object-orientation principles
• Program design with Ruby
• The use of Ruby as a scripting tool for administrative tasks
• Testing basics and Ruby testing facilities

Course Agenda:

• Basic Ruby concepts and features
• Everything's an object
• Local variables and assignment
• Top-level method definitions
• Arithmetic and logical operators
• Global variables
• The default object (self)
• Object orientation in Ruby
• Messages and methods
• Ruby’s class model
• Inheritance
• The object method lookup-path
• Classes and modules
• Class methods
• Constants
• Module “mix-ins” in classes
• Modules as namespaces
• Instance method definition syntax
• Reopening class and module definitions
• Overriding methods
• Instances and attributes
• Instance variables
• Attribute setter and getter techniques
• Ruby and the “Equal Access Principle”
• Strings, symbols, and regular expressions
• Basic string manipulation and indexing
• Symbols and the symbol table
• Regular expression syntax
• Pattern-matching with scan, sub, and match
• Collection objects and iterators
• Array, Hash, and Range classes
• Code blocks and iteration
• Creating iterators with the Enumerable module
• Collection filtering, selecting, and transforming
• Enumerators and external iteration
• Object dynamism
• Adding singleton methods to objects
• Modular extension of per-object behavior
• Singleton classes
• Extending existing classes
• Threads
• Starting, running, stopping threads
• Threads and variable scope
• Thread-safety considerations
• And more.