Learn the basics of Ruby with hands-on practice.

Become a Ruby Professional

Do you want to be an interpreted language geek? Are you tired of getting entangled in the dense syntaxes? Does it irritate you to compile your code to machine language first? Are you looking for an easy-to-use scripting language? Well, Ruby is the best pick for you then!
This introductory module will be providing you with hands-on practice with the support of a bunch of interactive illustrations, exercises, and the integral topics of variables, built-in classes, objects, conditionals, blocks, and much more!

Learn Ruby from Scratch

## Writing classes

We’re now finally ready for our own classes. Because nearly everything’s an object in Ruby, we’ve worked with objects quite a bit.

We’ve created numbers and strings, and we’ve seen objects like `true`, `false`, and `nil`. We’ve also looked at their class names by calling, `"a string".class`, and we’ve explored some other methods that these objects have. We’ve also learned how we can define our own methods and how we can call them, passing arguments as required.

# Writing classes

We’re now finally ready for our own classes. Because nearly everything’s an object in Ruby, we’ve worked with objects quite a bit.

We’ve created numbers and strings, and we’ve seen objects like `true`, `false`, and `nil`. We’ve also looked at their class names by calling, `"a string".class`, and we’ve explored some other methods that these objects have. We’ve also learned how we can define our own methods and how we can call them, passing arguments as required.

The Big Picture

Variables

Built-in Class: Numeric

Built-in Class: String

Built-in Classes: TrueClass, FalseClass and NILClass

Built-in Class: Symbol

Built-in Class: Array

Built-in Class: Hash

Objects

Methods

Operators are Methods

Blocks

Get Ready for some more Drill!

Conditionals

Coding Challenge: Truthiness and Equivalence

Lets run another lap with hashes

Writing Classes

Mini project 1

Spotlight on Things Unremarked

Advanced Topics

Your Toolkit!

Appendix: Mailbox Project Prerequisite

Conclusion

Getting Started with Classes

Writing classes