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First, What is Ruby? Ruby is a cross-platform interpreted language which has many features in common with other 'scripting' languages such as Perl and Python. However, its version of object orientation is more thorough than those languages and, in many respects, it has more in common with Smalltalk. In Ruby, everything you manipulate is an object, and the results of those manipulations are themselves objects. The Ruby language was created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto (commonly known as 'Matz').
Next, What is Rails? Currently much of the excitement surrounding Ruby can be attributed to a web development framework called Rails - popularly known as 'Ruby On Rails'. Ruby and Rails covered here will give you the grounding you need to understand Rails code and write your own Rails applications.
Today, Download Ruby plus an Editor.The simplest way to get Ruby installed on a PC is by using the Ruby Installer for Windows. Click on ruby182-15.exe This includes the SciTE code editor. Ruby releases with even subversion numbers - 1.6, 1.8, and so on - are stable, public releases. Install Ruby on your PC. After you have installed your Ruby software, the System Environment Variable path is already set to point to the bin folder of Ruby.
Do note that these instruction assume that you are going to use a Windows platform. For other platforms, I would request our participant Shantanu to post his comments on the process.
Ruby is the interpreted language, so you don't have to recompile to execute the program written in Ruby.
Questions asked by the participants:
1. Vikrant Chaudhari - Please explain the statement "Ruby is a Dynamic programming language."
Answer: In computer science, a dynamic programming language is a kind of programming language in which programs can change their structure as they run: functions may be introduced or removed, new classes of objects may be created, new modules may appear. Refer here for more details.
In the next session, we shall start writing Ruby programs.
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First, What is Ruby? Ruby is a cross-platform interpreted language which has many features in common with other 'scripting' languages such as Perl and Python. However, its version of object orientation is more thorough than those languages and, in many respects, it has more in common with Smalltalk. In Ruby, everything you manipulate is an object, and the results of those manipulations are themselves objects. The Ruby language was created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto (commonly known as 'Matz').
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Remember you need to comment here and say that you have installed Ruby on your PC.
Next, What is Rails? Currently much of the excitement surrounding Ruby can be attributed to a web development framework called Rails - popularly known as 'Ruby On Rails'. Ruby and Rails covered here will give you the grounding you need to understand Rails code and write your own Rails applications.
Today, Download Ruby plus an Editor.The simplest way to get Ruby installed on a PC is by using the Ruby Installer for Windows. Click on ruby182-15.exe This includes the SciTE code editor. Ruby releases with even subversion numbers - 1.6, 1.8, and so on - are stable, public releases. Install Ruby on your PC. After you have installed your Ruby software, the System Environment Variable path is already set to point to the bin folder of Ruby.
Do note that these instruction assume that you are going to use a Windows platform. For other platforms, I would request our participant Shantanu to post his comments on the process.
Ruby is the interpreted language, so you don't have to recompile to execute the program written in Ruby.
Questions asked by the participants:
1. Vikrant Chaudhari - Please explain the statement "Ruby is a Dynamic programming language."
Answer: In computer science, a dynamic programming language is a kind of programming language in which programs can change their structure as they run: functions may be introduced or removed, new classes of objects may be created, new modules may appear. Refer here for more details.
In the next session, we shall start writing Ruby programs.
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Started on non-windows platform :)
I have Installed Ruby. Lets get started... cheers :)
I've installed Ruby and Instant Rails on my PC.
- Vasudev
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