Using these Notes
The study notes is a step-by-step tutorial to programming in Ruby and you can follow it page by page, reading the text and running the sample programs. There are no large applications in this book - just small, self-contained sample programs.
On the left-hand side of the site, you will find a menu-item named Table of Contents. This contains links to all the topics you require to study the Ruby programming language. Also, at the bottom of every page you will see the Learning Ruby Navigation that takes you to either the Previous, Next page or the Table of Contents.
Any source code in these study notes, is written like this:
def hello puts 'hello' end |
Explanatory notes (generally provides some hints or gives a more in-depth explanation of some point mentioned in the text) are shown in a shaded box like this:
| This is an explanatory note related to Ruby. You can skip it if you like - but if you do so, you may miss something of interest-! |
This explains how the relevant Ruby topic is being used in Rails.
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When there is a sample program to accompany the code, the program name is shown like this: hello.rb
