Ruby
Ruby is a modern, object-oriented, dynamic programming language. It is most best known for its use in the Ruby on Rails framework but it is also used in a wide variety of other applications. Ruby supports a variety of metaprogramming techniques that make it well suited to the creation of a domain-specific language (DSL).
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RubyCocoa Resources
Tutorials, articles, and how-to repository for all things RubyCocoa.
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Logging in Ruby on Rails
Brief intro to Ruby on Rails logging, and how to switch from the default logger to log4r.
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Chad's Blog - ruby-debug in 30 seconds (we don't need no stinkin' GUI!)
A very condensed how-to use ruby-debug from the command line.
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Data Noise: Tutorial on ruby-debug
An introduction about ruby-debug and its basic operation from the command line.
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Netbeans 6.0, Leopard and "fast debug"
Briefly describes how to get Netbeans 6 to work with the native install of Ruby and Rails on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). In particular, provides important hint on pointing to the GEM installation path.
- Classic Ruby losing Against IronRuby
- The mechanically verified Ruby 1.9 changelog
- Ruby 1.9 released
- Ruby 1.9—Right for You?
- Ruby 1.9 Is Released!
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From Novice to Professional
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Documentation (16)
- Ruby Standard Library Documentation
- RubyBrain.com: Javascript enhanced Ruby API docs
AJAX-based viewer for Ruby API documentation.
- RubyGems Manuals
Reference manual for RubyGems
- Merb
Merb is a new, light weight MVC framework optimized for simplicity and performance. From the site intro: “Like Ruby on Rails, Merb is an MVC framework. Unlike Rails, Merb is ORM-agnostic, JavaScript library agnostic, and template language agnostic, preferring plugins that add in support for a particular feature rather than trying to produce a monolithic library with everything in the core. In fact, this is a guiding principle of the project, which has led to third-party support for the ActiveRecord, DataMapper, and Sequel ORMs.”
- Programming Ruby
The first edition of the primary Ruby reference work is available for free online. The print version is in the second edition.
- Ruby Core Reference
The Ruby language RDOCs.
- Ruby Standard Library Documentation
- RubyCocoa
Home page for the RubyCocoa project on SourceForge.
- $ cheat rdebug
No-frills, full cheat-sheet for ruby-debug.
- Debugging with ruby-debug
Documentation for the SVN (latest) version of ruby-debug.
- Installing RMagick on OS X using MacPorts
Instructions for installing RMagick on Mac OS X, including how to use MacPorts to get ImageMagick running. Part of the larger documentation set for RMagick.
- Libxml-Ruby API
- Log4r - Manual
Log4r is a comprehensive and flexible logging library written in Ruby for use in Ruby programs. It features a hierarchical logging system of any number of levels, custom level names, logger inheritance, multiple output destinations, execution tracing, custom formatting, thread safteyness, XML and YAML configuration, and more.
- OSX Leopard mysql gem for ruby
How to compile the mysql gem when using the Mac Ports install of MySQL and the native Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) Ruby and Rails (and gems) installs.
- RSpec Homepage
RSpec is a Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby. It provides two frameworks for writing and executing examples of how your Ruby application should behave: a Story Framework for describing behaviour at the application level; and a Spec Framework for describing behaviour at the object level.
- Ruby Garden Wiki
Wiki with extensive set of information about Ruby.
Software (8)
- Ruby
Central site for the Ruby programming language
- annotate_models plugin
Provides a rake tasks that adds comments to all your models listing the database columns.
- Ruby Facets
Facets is a huge collection of Ruby libraries. Before you write something that addresses a common problem, look here to see if it has already been done for you.
- Flex Mock
FlexMock is a simple, but flexible, mock object library for Ruby unit testing that integrates easily with Test::Unit.
- Mocha
Official Mocha Readme
- Preview Releases: Net::SSH and friends
Announcin preview releases of Net::SSH, Net::SFTP, and Net::SCP
- RAA - rss/0.1.9
- RubyWorks - ThoughtWorks Studios
Enterprise support for Ruby applications from ThoughtWorks.
FAQs & Resource Lists (1)
- Ruby Garden Wiki
Wiki with extensive set of information about Ruby.
Cheat Sheets (1)
Screencasts (3)
Presentation Slides (1)
e-Books (2)
Directories (2)
- RubyGems.org
An excellent site for finding and rating Ruby gems.
- What's up in Ruby?
Ruby-specific search engine.
Groups (2)
- Ruby Forum
Primary discussion group for users of the Ruby language. Very high traffic.
- Ruby Forum on DaniWeb
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Top Blogs
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Ruby Inside
An active and authoritative blog about Ruby techniques, from the author of Beginning Ruby.
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Data Noise
Ruby developer, author of ruby-debug.
- Gluttonous
- O'Reilly Ruby Blog
- Practical Ruby
- Ruby and Rails Related Tips
- Shades of Gray
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Zen and the Art of Programming
This blog includes a useful weekly post titled "This week in Ruby" with a roundup of the latest Ruby-related news.
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ChadFowler.com
Author of Rails Recipies, co-founder of Ruby Central, and one of the leaders of the Ruby community.
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Headius
One of the primary developers of JRuby.
- Jay Fields Thoughts
