Introduction to Ruby

2011 CCSP

Transcript

1. Introduction to Ruby Andrew Liu
2. Ruby is… • Designed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (松本行弘) – "I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object- oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language“ • An object-oriented scripting language • Easy to learn!
3. Philosophy • Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." • They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves.
5. Naming Convention • CamelCase – Class names, module names • ALLCAPITAL – Constants • words_with_underscore – Method names, variable names • $ prefix – Global variables
6. Everything is an object!
7. Strings
8. String Methods
9. Array
10. What if I want to reverse the array? http://ruby-doc.org/core/
12. Range
13. Hash
14. Block
15. How does it work?
16. More About Class
17. More About Class
18. Class • Variable – @@ prefix: Shared by all class instances – @ prefix: Contains instances information – No prefix: normal variables • Methods – self. Prefix: Class methods, as known as static method – No prefix: Instance methods, must be called with a instance
19. Creating Instance
21. Flow Control
22. Cases
23. While
24. For
25. Resources • Programming Ruby (Bible) – http://www.ruby- doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/ • Ruby API Document – http://ruby-doc.org/core/ • TryRuby – http://tryruby.org/ • Ruby Warrior – https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior