From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T17:50:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Making a scripting tutorial

Vincent Foley wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am part of a Linux User Group in Quebec, and I would like to make a
> presentation one day about Ruby.  Since most people there are not
> programmers, but mostly system administrators and that most of them
> know nothing about scripting beyond piping a command into grep, I
> thought it would be a nice opportunity to show them Ruby and how it
> can help them in their everyday tasks.
>
> Now, I would like to know, what sort of material I should cover for an
> introduction?  Is there already material out there that I could ues?
> I will definitly need an introduction to Ruby, its syntax, etc. that
> is as concise and clear as possible.  My plan of the tutorial right
> now would be something along the lines of:
>
> - Running a Ruby program and using irb
> - Basic classes (Integer, Array, String)
> - Showing how to do input/output with gets and puts
> - Showing how to do file and directory operations
> - Conditionals and loops (probably limit it to if, while and for x in)
> - Using regular expressions*
> - Useful modules (Net::Http, Net::SSH, Net::FTP, anything else that
> would be useful for sysadmin?)
> - Have one or two practical scripts
>
> * could be skipped if the rest is too long
>
> How does that sound?  Is there stuff I'm forgetting that I should
> mention?  Is it too long for just a first introduction?  Or good
> enough, and if they're interested, they can buy the Pickaxe and ask
> questions?
>
> Thanks for the input,
>
> Vincent.

There are quite some tutorials out there - you can easily find them with
Ggl

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
http://www.ruby.ch/tutorial/
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/Tutorial/
http://ruby.brian-schroeder.de/course/

I guess you will find something usable there.

    robert