Syllabus: (subject to adjustment)

• July 17:
  • Review "Try Ruby!" tutorial
  • Ruby Rudiments: arrays & hashes, control, regexp, blocks, iterators, I/O
  • Standard types: numbers, strings, ranges
• July 24:
  • Classes, Objects and Variables
  • Containers, Blocks and Iterators
• July 31:
  • More on methods
  • Expressions
• August 7:
  • Exception handling
  • Modules
  • Input/Output
• August 14:
  • Threads & processes
  • Ruby and the Web
• August 21:
  • Extending Ruby

Tutorials:

• Why The Lucky Stiff's Try Ruby!
• Ruby in 20 Minutes from ruby-lang.org
• rubylearning.com
• There's just no end to these.

Documentation:

• Ruby's Somewhat Official Homepage
• ruby-doc.org
• Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby chunky bacon!
• Code samples from Programming Ruby

Articles:

• The Beauty of Ruby (Flash video)

Demos:

• LDAP Lookup