General presentation
History, versions, alternatives
About Ruby and Rails
Development and implementation environments
The principle of least surprise

Simple imperative syntax, comments, etc.
Using the console
Creating multiple variables
Operations, expressions

Control structures – tests, loops,
Arrays and Hash blocks
Methods (calls, definition) and good code organization
More complex structures; files and introduction to the object
Conventions, standards and documentation

Practical workshop: creation of a complete and complex interactive application

Character strings, shortened syntaxes, encoding, regular expressions
Time and Date classes
Processes and their synchronization
Other common libraries

Practical workshop: many uses and organized application