Ruby Programming Language Overview: Read a Complete Program

Follow an order-summary program from data to output, then test empty input, incorrect types and missing keys.

Follow an order-summary program from data to output, then test empty input, incorrect types and missing keys.
Campaign spreadsheets get messy very fast. One person tracks followers, another tracks video views, and somebody else has the monthly service charge tucked away in a column. All of it relates to the same campaign, although the figures need different…

Choose a practical Ruby project by its inputs, output and failure rules, from a cleanup script to a shared web application.

Separate Ruby, Rails, IRB and RubyGems, then use a reading-goal program to see how Ruby calculates values and makes decisions.

GitHub, Shopify and Airbnb turn up in almost every list of websites made with Ruby. Familiar names are useful, but they only answer part of the question. How many sites use Ruby, and what does it mean when a crawler…

Trace Ruby's origins, early public release and Ruby 2.0 milestone, then explore the design through a short modern example.

Suppose customer support sends a ticket to your team because a promotional code no longer works. You check the code and find that it was valid six months ago. Your company has stopped marketing the offer. However, a search ad…

Rails provides an application framework; React builds interfaces. Compare their roles, integration options and the costs of running them together.

Separate the framework from the language, then compare complete web stacks using the same product feature and maintenance requirements.

Salesforce imports seem simple until automation breaks Importing data into Salesforce can look straightforward. Choose a file, map the columns, test the records and move them into production. The administrative steps are familiar. The difficulties often appear later, when an…