Video of “Leveraging Ruby Libraries”, my webcast for O’Reilly, has been posted. It’s a whirlwind tour of some of the cool things you can do with Ruby’s core classes, standard library, and third-party gems.

• Intro
  • What is Ruby?
  • Installing Ruby
  • Syntax basics
• Examples of Core Classes
  • Array
  • Hash
  • File
• Examples from Standard Library
  • CSV
  • ERB
  • YAML
• Examples of Ruby Gems
  • lolcat
  • Rails
  • Sinatra

Just sign up here (make sure to un-check the two boxes so they don’t spam you) and you’ll be e-mailed a link to the presentation immediately.