Carleton DiLeo is a founder, author, and developer who brings nearly two decades of experience working with technology. His expertise includes building high-traffic websites, big data systems, and video games. This wide base of knowledge provides Carleton with a unique perspective when working with Ruby.Peter Cooper is an experienced Ruby developer, trainer, and publisher who runs Ruby Inside, the most popular blog in the Ruby and Rails worlds, with 18,000 subscribers. He also curates RubyFlow, a popular Ruby community link blog. Over the past few years he has developed, launched, and sold two startups (Feed Digest and Code Snippets), both powered by Ruby and Rails.

• Part 1 - Foundations and Scaffolding.- 1. Let’s Get It Started: Installing Ruby.- 2. Programming = Joy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation.- 3. Ruby’s Building Blocks: Data, Expressions, and Flow Control.- 4. Developing Your First Ruby Application.- 5. The Ruby Ecosystem.- Part 2 - The Core of Ruby.- 6. Classes, Objects, and Modules.- 7. Projects and Libraries.- 8. Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing.- 9. Files and Databases.- 10. Deploying Ruby Applications and Libraries.- 11. Advanced Ruby Features.- 12. Tying It Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application.- Part 3 - Ruby Online.- 13. Web Application Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, and Ramaze.- 14. Ruby and the Internet.- 15. Networking, Sockets, and Daemons.- 16. Useful Ruby Libraries.- Appendix A. Ruby Primer and Review for Developers.- Appendix B. Useful Resources.

Carleton DiLeo is a founder, author, and developer who brings nearly two decades of experience working with technology. His expertise includes building high-traffic websites, big data systems, and video games. This wide base of knowledge provides Carleton with a unique perspective when working with Ruby.Peter Cooper is an experienced Ruby developer, trainer, and publisher who runs Ruby Inside, the most popular blog in the Ruby and Rails worlds, with 18,000 subscribers. He also curates RubyFlow, a popular Ruby community link blog. Over the past few years he has developed, launched, and sold two startups (Feed Digest and Code Snippets), both powered by Ruby and Rails.

• Part 1 - Foundations and Scaffolding.- 1. Let’s Get It Started: Installing Ruby.- 2. Programming = Joy: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ruby and Object Orientation.- 3. Ruby’s Building Blocks: Data, Expressions, and Flow Control.- 4. Developing Your First Ruby Application.- 5. The Ruby Ecosystem.- Part 2 - The Core of Ruby.- 6. Classes, Objects, and Modules.- 7. Projects and Libraries.- 8. Documentation, Error Handling, Debugging, and Testing.- 9. Files and Databases.- 10. Deploying Ruby Applications and Libraries.- 11. Advanced Ruby Features.- 12. Tying It Together: Developing a Larger Ruby Application.- Part 3 - Ruby Online.- 13. Web Application Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, and Ramaze.- 14. Ruby and the Internet.- 15. Networking, Sockets, and Daemons.- 16. Useful Ruby Libraries.- Appendix A. Ruby Primer and Review for Developers.- Appendix B. Useful Resources.