Overview
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Learn how to define custom classes and modules in Ruby for more efficient, maintainable, and scalable code.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Learn to use custom classes in Ruby
- What you need to know
- Get the most out of the exercise files
- Define a class
- Instances
- Attributes
- Reader and writer methods
- Attribute methods
- Method access control
- Initialize method
- Challenge: Dice
- Solution: Dice
- Class methods
- Class attributes
- Class reader and writer methods
- Challenge: Radio
- Solution: Radio
- Class inheritance
- Override and extend
- Access the superclass
- Challenge: Secure radio
- Solution: Secure radio
- Time
- Date
- DateTime
- Challenge: Birthdate analysis
- Solution: Birthdate analysis
- Namespacing
- Mixins
- Load, require, and include
- Challenge: To-do list
- Solution: To-do list
- Handle exceptions
- Handle specific exceptions
- Exception methods
- Raise exceptions
- Custom exceptions
- Challenge: Custom exceptions
- Next steps
