An Introduction to Ruby Programming Language | Object-Oriented Programming
Explore the fundamentals of Ruby, a versatile and powerful programming language, including its web application framework Ruby on Rails.
Introduction
An Introduction to Ruby Programming Language by Ali Tourani.
Highlights
- An Object-Oriented programming language
- Released in 1995 by Yukihiro Matsumoto
- Influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp
- Similar to Smalltalk, Perl and Python
- A Server-Side Scripting Language (like Python and Perl)
- Open-Source, Free and General-Purpose!
- Easy connection to various databases like DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase
- Easy to write Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts
- Easy to develop internet applications
- Easy to maintain big programs written in Ruby (Scalability)
- Rails: an Open-Source Web application framework written in Ruby
Recommendation
This course is recommended for anyone interested in learning the Ruby programming language, including its web application framework Ruby on Rails. It covers the fundamentals of Ruby, its architecture, applications, installation guide, and project creation, as well as key concepts like Active Records, CRUD, and Migration.
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