I recommend before diving into this tutorial to have a competent enough knowledge of Ruby, even if it is just from a book such as Ruby for Rails: Ruby techniques for Rails developers by David A. Black or Programming Ruby, the latter of which is available freely online.

Conventions

This tutorial uses a few conventions:

• writing file names in italics
• putting things that should be typed into a console window in something that resembles this
• putting large blocks of code into areas. So that they can be properly formatted properly.
  Person class

  class Person
  def greet
  puts "Hello"
  end
  end

• Links look like this
• Sometimes methods are written by prefixing a word with a hash symbol (#), such as #inspect or #push

About the Author

Ryan Bigg is a Web Developer based in South Australia, and has been coding Ruby for 2 years and has enjoyed just about every day of it.