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

## Sublime Text all the way

We recommend using [Sublime Text](http://www.sublimetext.com)
as a text editor, which you can download and run on Mac OSX, Ubuntu, or Windows. This is an editor that has been specifically designed for writing code, comes with a lot of great tools, and is easily customized.

Good editors like Sublime help us format things. For example, when we ’re on a line that starts with `def something` and hit “return” at the end of the line, Sublime will already indent the next line by two spaces. If we now type `end`, then Sublime notices that we’re closing the method and outdents it again so that `def` and `end` sit on the same level.

# Sublime Text all the way

We recommend using [Sublime Text](http://www.sublimetext.com)
as a text editor, which you can download and run on Mac OSX, Ubuntu, or Windows. This is an editor that has been specifically designed for writing code, comes with a lot of great tools, and is easily customized.

Good editors like Sublime help us format things. For example, when we ’re on a line that starts with `def something` and hit “return” at the end of the line, Sublime will already indent the next line by two spaces. If we now type `end`, then Sublime notices that we’re closing the method and outdents it again so that `def` and `end` sit on the same level.

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

Text Editor

Sublime Text all the way