Programming with Ruby Training Course

Programming with Ruby

Note: During the Covid-19 crisis, courses will only be delivered over the web

4 days hands-on £1,940+VAT

This course can be delivered over the web

Next scheduled date:
Monday February 3^rd, 2025 Enrol Now!

Can't wait that long? It may be possible to deliver this course at an earlier date. Contact us if you're interested

Ruby essentials and overview of GUI and web development

Outline

The Ruby Environment

Running the Ruby interpreter
Ruby program structure
Integrated Development Environments
Documentation

Ruby Basics

Program input & output
Data types
Variables
Conditionals
Looping
Scalar operators & functions

Container Objects

Strings
Tuples
Lists
Dictionaries
Indexing & slicing
Iteration
Container operators & functions

Functions

Defining & calling functions
Local & global variables
Argument passing
Functional processing constructs

Modules

Files & modules
Namespaces
Scope
Packages

Regular Expressions

Simple regular expressions
Metacharacters
Character classes
Back-references
Capturing sub-patterns
Non-greedy qualifiers
Pattern matching
Substitution

Object-Oriented Programming

Classes and attributes
Instances and attributes
Binding and method invocation
Inheritance
Access control
Delegation

GUI Programming

Using TkInter
The Grid Layout Manager
Dimensions, fonts and colours
Basic widgets
Widget configuration
Command procedures
Menus
Standard dialogs

Error Handling

Exception processing
Standard exception classes
Exception specifiers
Raising exceptions
User-defined exceptions

Files

Manipulating files and directories
Reading and writing data

Network Programming

TCP/IP Overview
Client sockets
Server sockets

Web Programming

Writing web clients
HTML processing
Writing CGI scripts
Form processing

Overview

Ruby is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language with a simple syntax and cross-platform support. Ruby is extensible and new built-in modules are easily written in C or C++.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to Ruby. The workshops are based on real-world examples of Ruby applications.

Objectives

On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Write, debug and execute Ruby code
Understand Ruby's powerful regular expressions
Use Ruby to manipulate files and directories
Write networked and web-enabled applications in Ruby
Create graphical interfaces with Ruby/Tk

Audience

This course is for programmers, testers, web developers and system administrators who wish to use the Ruby programming language in their environment.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to be familiar with at least one other programming language and to have some knowledge of HTML.

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Programming with Ruby

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