Ruby Curious

In this course we’ll introduce you to the wonderfully curious world of Ruby.

What Will I Learn?

You’ve heard the hype and can no longer hold back you brain’s intrinsic thirst for knowledge. Will it make you toast in the morning? Is it your best friend? Can it really solve world hunger?

We think so and we’ll show you how. In this course we’ll demonstrate the pure awesomeness of Ruby by exploring:

• Ruby’s history and background
• Strings, Integers and Objects
• Arrays, Hashes, and Collections
• Control structures
• Methods and Classes
• Modules and Mixins

Additional topics will be covered as time allows

Preparation

This is a lab-intensive course so we recommend that you bring along a laptop, so you get the most out of our class. If you don't have access to a laptop (or prefer not to bring one), let us know and we can make arrangements for you to pair with someone. We recommend OS X or Linux, but you can use Windows if that is what you're most comfortable with.

Also make sure you have the following installed:

• Ruby (version 1.8.6 or higher)
• RubyGems
• A recent version of Ruby on Rails (version 2.3.x or higher)

If you have trouble with getting any of these installed please let us know — we can assist with OS X and Linux installation issues. We will attempt to assist with Windows installation issues, but it is not our standard development environment.

Instructors

Adam Bair - Adam has a passion for elegant solutions and beautiful code even in the depths of the trenches. He is a Ruby on Rails evangelist who advocates behavior driven development and web standards. He was an instructor at the LoneStar Ruby Conference, talked at the first annual South Carolina Ruby Conference, participated in the 2008 Rails Rumble, and is writing a book on Rails refactoring. Before joining Intridea, Adam worked at Revolution Health building large-scale applications used by millions of people each month. Before that, he managed humans in a network operating center, punched down network cables in dark server closets, and even worked with PHP.

The number of instructors is dependent upon attendance and we'll involve additional instructors as needed to keep a low student-to-instructor ratio. Past instructors include Adam Bair, Joe Grossberg, Paul Ostasezki, and Pradeep Elankumaran.