An Invitation To Ruby

Author: Jim Weirich
Converted to Pandora by: Julian I. Kamil
Original text: http://onestepback.org/articles/invitationtoruby/

  Abstract

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language with a great deal of flexibility and power. This presentation is not a tutorial on Ruby (although we will see a lot of Ruby code), but a simple invitation to come check it out. Hopefully, you will be enticed.

You can find this talk as individual web pages at:

• http://w3.one.net/~jweirich/development/talks/invitationtoruby

or as a downloadable file in tar/gzip format at:

• ftp://ftp.one.net/pub/users/jweirich/talks/invitationtoruby.tgz

Contents

1. Cover Page
2. First Example
3. So … What is Ruby?
4. The Top Ten Reasons I Like Ruby
5. Summing Up
6. Thank You
7. Appendix A—What is Object Oriented?
8. Appendix B—Database Example
9. Appendix C—Web Server Example

Copyright notice

Original format – Copyright © 2002-2006 Jim Weirich. All rights reserved.
Pandora format – Copyright © 2006 Julian I. Kamil. All rights reserved.
This article has been made available at The Ruby Bookshelf in the Pandora format under the Creative Commons License.