Genboree Discovery System - Project: CAD_Course

Important Links:

Learning Ruby
An "essentials" tutorial covering the major aspects of Ruby, organized along a classic introduction to a new programming language tutorial. Short.

Ruby Basic Tutorial
Another introductory tutorial for Ruby. Long. Lots of example code and colored boxes.

Ruby Learning
Generic site concerning learning Ruby.

Ruby Tutorial With Code Samples
Organized hands-on tutorial with code examples. Gets going fast, jumping right into defining your own functions, but then slows down and covers many of the same topics as in the lecture. But better and with more interesting tidbits.

Rubydocs!!
Rubydoc site covering core language classes and standard libary classes. I recommend doing "rubydoc <className>" in Google as the best entry into this site.

Try Ruby!
A "15 minute" interactive tutorial that explains some basic Ruby things (live) and has you try some of them (live). Good for getting going quickly.

Basic Programming in Ruby

Introdcution
Fundamental Ruby data types, "operators", methods
Outputting text
Flow control
Basic I/O
Intro to regular expression syntax
Writing & Running Ruby programs