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This is the first in a series for beginners on the Ruby Programming Language. Note that Ruby is a programming language. Ruby on Rails (“RoR”) is a web-application framework that is implemented in Ruby. Do not confuse the two. We will not covering Ruby on Rails in these tutorials.
These tutorials will be gather together under the tag #RubyTuesday, as we will be posting one each week from today to the end of term. Ready? Here we go…