Ruby Quickstart ("Tutorial on a few pages")

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

Hi there,

I'm giving an in-company presentation about a rather advanced project my
team has been busy with over the last few months. Ruby has been chosen
for one of the reference implementations. However, most of my collegaes
are not familiar with Ruby.

So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
"quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.

Does anyone know if and where I can a tutorial like that?

Regards,

Iwan

 

[James Britt]

Hi there,

I'm giving an in-company presentation about a rather advanced project my
team has been busy with over the last few months. Ruby has been chosen
for one of the reference implementations. However, most of my collegaes
are not familiar with Ruby.

So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
"quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.

Does anyone know if and where I can a tutorial like that?

You may find some useful presentations here.

http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=251
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/GSWR/
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ruby1.html


James

 

[Randy Kramer]

So what I am looking for is a brief and concise "mini tutorial" or
"quick start" for Ruby. One which I can distribute among the
participants before the presentation, so they can get quickly aqainted
with the language. So ideally, it shoudl be only a page of three,at most
four, covering the essential aspects of Ruby.

Maybe its not necessary in this case, but I always want to think about what
the audience already knows. I guess, in this day and age, if they are all
programmers, they are all familiar with object oriented concepts? Do they
all program in some other (specific) language? If so, what is it (3 to 4
pages comparing that language to Ruby might be ideal.

regards,
Randy Kramer

 

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

If so, what is it (3 to 4

pages comparing that language to Ruby might be ideal.

They are all experienced Java and/or C# developers with some PHP skills.
Apart from basic syntax (syntax matters, even for experienced
programmers), I guess the biggest stubling block will be:
= more OOP ( 5.times you know ;-)
= blocks
= Ruby's dynamism

Of course I will be able to make some sheets, but probably someone else
did a better job already.

Regards,

Iwan

 

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

You may find some useful presentations here.

http://rubyforge.org/docman/?group_id=251

That did the trick, thanks