Alex's notes and slides for teaching Ruby

Alex Chaffee [email protected]

We use a Ruby app called deck to generate and serve the slides. Install deck like this:

gem install deckrb

And of course, before you can see these slides, you need to clone this repo and change into its directory:

git clone https://github.com/alexch/ruby_notes.git
cd ruby_notes

deck showoff.json

This will launch a local web server on port 4333. Open your browser to localhost:4333.

On a Mac you can run:

open http://localhost:4333

On Windows I think you can run:

start http://localhost:4333

Use arrow keys to navigate slides. Press '?' to see a help window.

Same as above, but specify the slide files you want, e.g.

deck ruby-basics/strings.md

or

deck ruby-objects/objects.md ruby-objects/classes.md

Slides are in Markdown format.

Image files should be in, or relative to, the same directory as the slide source file that refers to them.

• Ruby Quickstart for Refugees
• ruby for programmers from Railsbridge Open Workshops
• The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black
• Learn to Program by Chris Pine

This project is under an open source license. We're not sure exactly which one... probably MIT.