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How To Use IRB to Explore Ruby — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use IRB to Explore Ruby

IRB, short for Interactive Ruby, is a REPL (read-eval-print loop) which serves as a quick way to explore the Ruby programming language and try out code without creating a file. In this tutorial, you’ll use IRB to run some code, inspect its output, bring in external libraries, and customize your IRB session.

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How To Use RVM to Manage Ruby Installations and Environments on a VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use RVM to Manage Ruby Installations and Environments on a VPS

RVM, the Ruby Version Manager, is an excellent tool for configuring and installing independent Ruby environments on a single machine. You can use this utility to compartmentalize Ruby installations and their associated software in order to develop in a clean environment. This guide will cover the basic usage of RVM on a Linux VPS.

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How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Control URLs and Links in Jekyll

In Part 3 of this series, we look at how Jekyll creates URLs and show how to change the pattern for an individual file or the entire site. Then we look a how to link to pages within our site and stage it for testing.

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How To Work with Arrays in Ruby — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Work with Arrays in Ruby

An array is a data structure that represents a list of values, called elements. Arrays let you store multiple values in a single variable. This can condense and organize your code, making it more readable and maintainable. In this tutorial, you’ll create arrays, access the values they contain, add, modify, and remove elements in an array, and iterate through the elements in an array to solve more complex problems.

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