Object-oriented Ruby Fundamentals

Course Overview
Hi, everyone. My name is Alex Korban, and welcome to my course, Object‑oriented Ruby Fundamentals. I'm a software developer and author, and I've been working with Ruby since the early 2000s. Ruby is a thoroughly object‑oriented language. It combines object orientation with its dynamic nature in interesting ways in order to give you a lot of expressive power. In this course, my goal is to provide you with a solid foundation for writing object‑oriented Ruby code. Some of the major topics that we will cover include working with objects, which are ubiquitous in Ruby, even its classes are actually objects, creating classes to encapsulate data and methods, adding different kinds of methods to classes, and controlling their visibility, organizing classes into hierarchies with inheritance, creating modules, which I use both for namespacing and as building blocks for class functionality. By the end of this course, you will become familiar with all of the main object‑oriented features of Ruby, and you will learn how to apply them to write expressive and maintainable code. Before beginning the course, you should have Ruby installed and be familiar with the basics of the language. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn object‑oriented programming in Ruby with the Object‑oriented Ruby Fundamentals.