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Introduction to Ruby Programming Basics

Ruby was invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1996 and gained popularity with Ruby on Rails in 2005. It is a dynamic, object-oriented language influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Lisp. The lecture covers Ruby's history, why it is a useful language to learn, and basic principles like its object-oriented nature, indentation conventions, and how to print to the console.

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Introduction to Ruby Programming Basics

Ruby was invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1996 and gained popularity with Ruby on Rails in 2005. It is a dynamic, object-oriented language influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Lisp. The lecture covers Ruby's history, why it is a useful language to learn, and basic principles like its object-oriented nature, indentation conventions, and how to print to the console.

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In this lecture, we will discuss…

▪ Brief history of Ruby


▪ Another programming language to learn? Why?
▪ Basic Ruby principles and conventions
Ruby History
▪  Invented by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

▪  Version 1.0 released in 1996 (Japan)

▪  Popularized by Ruby on Rails beginning in 2005


Ruby: High Level Overview
▪  Dynamic

▪  Object-oriented
▪ Object-possessed, almost everything is an object

▪  Elegant, expressive and declarative


▪  Terse at times, but extremely readable

▪  Influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Lisp

“Designed to make programmers happy”


…Java…

public class Print3Times {


public static void main(String[] args){
for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
}
…Ruby…
Carried away…
Ruby Basics
▪  2 space indentation for each nested level is encouraged
▪  Not required (unlike Python)

▪  # is used for comments


▪  Use comments in moderation – the code itself should tell the
story

▪  Everything is evaluated!
Printing to Console

▪  puts - Standard Ruby method to print strings to


console (as in put string)
▪  Adds a new line after the printed string
▪  Similar to System.out.println() in Java
▪  Used for most of the examples
▪  p - Prints out internal representation of an object
▪  Debugger-style output
Executing Ruby
Naming Conventions

▪  Variables
▪  Lowercase or snake_case if multiple words

▪  Constants
▪  Either ALL_CAPS or FirstCap

▪  Classes (and Modules)


▪  CamelCase
Drop the Semicolons

▪  Leave semicolons off at the end of the line

▪  Can cram several statements in with a semicolon in


between
▪  Usually highly discouraged
IRB – Interactive Ruby
▪  Console-based interactive Ruby interpreter
▪  REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop)
▪  Comes with a Ruby installation
▪  Lets you experiment (quickly!) Anything evaluates to
something – no need to
assign to a variable

puts returns nil


Summary
▪  Ruby is extremely expressive
▪  Everything is evaluated

What’s next?

▪  Flow of control in Ruby

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