Ruby

By Prof Kannan Moudgalya - Principal Investigator of Spoken Tutorial Project | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Learners enrolled: 4093

This course comprises 10 audio-video spoken tutorials, using which you can self-learn Ruby programming language with ease.

STEP 1-

First of all install Ruby by following the steps given in this sheet.

https://spoken-tutorial.org/Ruby-Installation-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet gives the steps to install Ruby on Linux and Windows OS.
Open the sheet, read the instructions for your OS and install Ruby on your machine.
Cross-verify (as mentioned in the sheet) to confirm successful installation.
For Windows OS, please ensure Notepad ++ is also installed on the machine.

STEP 2-

Next, read this sheet. https://spoken-tutorial.org/Ruby-Instruction-Sheet-English.pdf/

This sheet explains how to learn from spoken tutorials.
This sheet also mentions some important information about the text editors while coding, how to use the command prompt (in Windows OS), how to use the Code Files, how to do the Assignments, etc.
Read this sheet carefully and make a note of all the information, before you begin.

STEP 3-
Follow the side-by-side learning methodology while learning from spoken tutorials - watch the video, listen to the instructions, pause the video, try out the command on your system. You should get the exact same results as shown in the video. If successful, proceed with the video. Else, rewind and watch the video again and replicate the commands shown.

Complete all the videos in the given sequence one by one.
The Assignment for each tutorial is for your self-assessment only. Do not upload it anywhere for evaluation.

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	Self Paced
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	1
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate

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Introduction to Ruby

Ruby has been described as an absolutely pure object-oriented scripting language and a genuine attempt to combine the best of everything in the scripting world.Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favourite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.Ruby is written in C, and it was designed with Perl and Python capabilities in mind.

Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management.It's consistency and it's object model make it easy to use. The syntax is simple, clean, and readable, with an expressiveness that gives your code a natural flow.

Ruby is also a great general purpose language. It can be used to write scripts and can be also used to create full scale, standalone GUI based applications.It is also great for serving web pages, generating dynamic web page content and excels at database access tasks.

Being an interpreted language means that Ruby is portable. Once an application has been developed in Ruby it will run equally well on Ruby supported platforms such as Linux, UNIX, Windows and MacOS X.

Learners: UG/PG CSE/IT/CS students to learn industry level programming.