The Ruby Workshop: Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Learn the fundamentals of Ruby object-oriented programming (OOP)

Use the Ruby on Rails framework to build interactive web applications

Discover how to quickly build complex programs with fewer lines of code

Description

The beauty of Ruby is its readability and expressiveness. Ruby hides away a lot of the complexity of programming, allowing you to work quickly and 'do more' with fewer lines of code. This makes it a great programming language for beginners, but learning any new skill can still be a daunting task. If you want to learn to code using Ruby, but don't know where to start, The Ruby Workshop will help you cut through the noise and make sense of this fun, flexible language. You'll start by writing and running simple code snippets and Ruby source code files. After learning about strings, numbers, and booleans, you'll see how to store collections of objects with arrays and hashes. You'll then learn how to control the flow of a Ruby program using boolean logic. The book then delves into OOP and explains inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Gradually, you'll build your knowledge of advanced concepts by learning how to interact with external APIs, before finally exploring the most popular Ruby framework ? Ruby on Rails ? and using it for web development. Throughout this book, you'll work on a series of realistic projects, including simple games, a voting application, and an online blog. By the end of this Ruby book, you'll have the knowledge, skills and confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious projects with Ruby.

What you will learn

Master the syntax and features of Ruby to build useful applications

Use common design patterns to simplify code and improve efficiency

Understand how to implement object-oriented programming with Ruby

Explore ways to fetch, process, and output data

Work with public APIs and create reusable RubyGems

Debug code to troubleshoot application behavior

Create interactive web applications with Ruby on Rails

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Dave Patrick Sep 11, 2020

One of the best books to start your programming career as it has lot of examples and learning with examples gives confidence. The writers have explained enough theory and in a simple manner. There are also activities that further helps in implementing the concept you have studied. Overall it's an amazing book for those starting with a programming career and as advised by my teachers Ruby is wonderful language to learn and understand programming. I highly recommend this book for new developers. My next ruby book would be well-grounded Rubyist same teachers have who recommended this books have suggested it as next step.

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Jerry P. Brook Jan 07, 2020

I was very disappointed with this book.What I expected from a workshop, was explanations with examples and exercises.That is, explanations of the various entities of the Ruby programming language, such as the many data types; numbers, strings, collections, et cetera. What they are, and why you would use them.With examples of how to use them, and maybe even how not to use them.Exercises allowing the reader to test out that knowledge, and to become comfortable with the ways in which each data type acts, and what you get in return. Hands on testing of various scenarios, some good and some not so good, in order to build the readers understanding.I would have really appreciated the gotchas, that is, the ways that some of these items don’t work, even though one might have expected something different. Ruby is supposed to be the language of “least surprise”, however, there still are some.I haven’t seen the gotchas pointed out in any other books, and so I wasn’t expecting them here either. It’s always easier to show all the things that do work, and conveniently avoid the things that don’t. But that just causes frustration for the new learner as they think that they are doing something incorrectly, when that isn’t the case.So, what do you get?Well, the book begins in the middle of the language, expecting the reader to have a full understanding of the core concepts. From their they only provide brief descriptions of the concepts that they cover, and they follow the age old “type this and get that”.It is training not teaching, just robotic-ally do this and you will see this in return. Why do we get that? Don’t ask. How is it working? Don’t ask. What if we typed something else? Don’t bother.This neither a new, or interactive, approach to learning.To which I say don’t bother wasting your money on this book.

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