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?
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:
Over how many days? You've listed quite a bit of material to present to non-programmers.
You might do best to show enough about scripting in general, very high-level, and some Ruby in particular, so as to generate interest in further exploration.
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.
Take a look at the WhyRuby wiki (http://whyruby.rubyforge.org) - it
contains a collection of presentations and links for advocating Ruby,
some of which may be useful for you.
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
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:
Over how many days? You've listed quite a bit of material to present to
non-programmers.
You might do best to show enough about scripting in general, very
high-level, and some Ruby in particular, so as to generate interest in
further exploration.
Take a look at the WhyRuby wiki (http://whyruby.rubyforge.org) - it
contains a collection of presentations and links for advocating Ruby,
some of which may be useful for you.
I was thinking in a period of about two hours. Like I said, I want to
run this by the newsgroups in case someone has already done something
like that. I was also thinking of an all-example presentation, where
you explain the bits as you go along.
Metadata: a slide showing how this list is good to newbies.
Unfortunately, ruby-forum.org not quite up yet (get screen shots of old
phpBB ruby-forum.org ?)
I'd say it is impossible to do what you want to do in just two hours.
You need to deploy only some hooks, and hope that they will pick up.
Maybe some simple administration task automated with ruby in a
detailed step by step walkthrough.
On 24/05/05, Vincent Foley <vfoley@gmail.com> wrote:
I was thinking in a period of about two hours. Like I said, I want to
run this by the newsgroups in case someone has already done something
like that. I was also thinking of an all-example presentation, where
you explain the bits as you go along.
On 24/05/05, Vincent Foley <vfoley@gmail.com> wrote:
I was thinking in a period of about two hours. Like I said, I want to
run this by the newsgroups in case someone has already done something
like that. I was also thinking of an all-example presentation, where
you explain the bits as you go along.
I'd say it is impossible to do what you want to do in just two hours.
You need to deploy only some hooks, and hope that they will pick up.
Maybe some simple administration task automated with ruby in a
detailed step by step walkthrough.
Four days? We meet once a month, I doubt they'll remember something
between each meeting, so something over four months is definitly out,
it should be a one-session thing. I'll ask on the mailing list what
they would like to automize, see if Ruby can do that easily enough and
build material around that. I think the goal would be more to show how
easier and more powerful than bash scripting Ruby can be and give them
the desire to pursue that than to give a complete tutorial on Ruby.
On 24/05/05, Vincent Foley <vfoley@gmail.com> wrote:
Four days? We meet once a month, I doubt they'll remember something
between each meeting, so something over four months is definitly out,
it should be a one-session thing. I'll ask on the mailing list what
they would like to automize, see if Ruby can do that easily enough and
build material around that. I think the goal would be more to show how
easier and more powerful than bash scripting Ruby can be and give them
the desire to pursue that than to give a complete tutorial on Ruby.
