- An Interview with the Creator of Ruby - Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, discusses Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'. [O'Reilly Network]
linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/29/ruby.html
- An Introduction to Ruby - Explains that the world can use another language for the simple reason that Ruby makes programming fun again, and that's what counts. Introduction via examining high-level Ruby traits, and distinguishing traits. [O'Reilly Network]
linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/25/ruby.html
- An Invitation to Ruby - Many links, review, comparison to other languages, code samples.
www.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~gotoken/ruby
- Apple's Ruby Programming Language Entry - Apple's download page for Mac OS X Ruby (in standard distribution since Mac OS X.2)
www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_apps_utilities/rubyprogramminglanguage.html
- blade - Site opens with pretty graphic, and otherwise looks thin, but has huge archives of many Ruby mail groups: ruby-list, ruby-dev, ruby-ext, ruby-math, ruby-talk, fj.comp.lang.ruby, comp.lang.ruby, News, News2, Mailing Lists; linux-users.
blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp
- Dejanews - Python thread on Ruby
www.dejanews.com/thread/441233183
- Developing GUIs with FOX and Ruby - RubyConf 2001 talk slides.
www.rubyconf.org/2001/talks/lyle/siframes.htm
- Download: Comparing and introducing Ruby - Short introduction to Ruby features, Ruby compared to Perl, Python.
www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/rb/download_ruby.html
- Features of Ruby - In English and German.
www.s-direktnet.de/homepages/neumann/ruby_en.html
- FreeRIDE: HomePage - An IDE for Ruby.
www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
- Interview with the Creator of Ruby - Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
slashdot.org/developers/01/12/01/0110233.shtml
- New Choices for Scripting - Article treating Ruby as one of several new language options for scripting. [SunWorld]
www.sunworld.com/swol-02-1999/swol-02-regex.html
- Object Oriented Language 'Ruby' - Many useful, interesting scripts, patches, extension modules, and documentation.
kt-www.jaist.ac.jp:8000/~ttate/ruby
- Objects and Components-Ruby - Introduction to programming language-Ruby. Provides links to central site, FAQs, references, newsgroup, mailing lists and books.
www.cetus-links.org/oo_ruby.html
- PLEAC - Ruby - Following the Perl Cookbook, which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages.
pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/t1.html
- Programming in Ruby - Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, but remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add in the convenience and power of Perl, but without all the special cases and magic conversions. Wrap it up in a clean syntax based in part on Eiffel, add a few concepts from Scheme, CLU, Sather, Common Lisp. You end up with Ruby. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]
www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0101/0101b/0101b.htm
- Programming in the Ruby language - First of 4-part series introduces Ruby programming, begins with variables, quotes, arrays, objects, methods. Later articles treat more advanced topics. By Joshua Drake, author of Linux books and co-founder of Command Prompt, Inc. [IBM developerWorks]
www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ruby1.html
- Programming in the Ruby Language - Forum comments and discussion related to July IBM developerWorks Ruby article, with the usual diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
slashdot.org/developers/01/08/11/2211254.shtml
- Programming Ruby - Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and the book 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
slashdot.org/developers/01/03/25/1624239.shtml
- Ralph's Ruby Page - Examples of MS technology being used with open source code. After 10 years with C++, VB, COM and associated MS technologies, Ruby is a lovely breath of fresh air. A few links, software download: Ruby.COM with documentation.
www.geocities.com/masonralph/ruby.html
- RDE - Windows based Ruby Development Environment
homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html
- RHDL - The Ruby Hardware Description Language - A free, Open Source, implementation of EHDL in Ruby.
www.aracnet.com/~ptkwt/ruby_stuff/RHDL
- Robert Feldt's Ruby page - Software: BitVector extension, rbwrap stand-alone executables from scripts/programs, much more coming; links; Comparing Ruby and Smalltalk.
www.ce.chalmers.se/~feldt/ruby
- ruby / K.Hiwada - Ruby tips, rb2c Ruby to C converter; experimental Ruby JIT compiler.
easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby
- Ruby FAQ - Questions and answers about the Ruby programming language.
www.rubycentral.com/faq
- Ruby-lang.org opens online! - Announcement of Ruby-lang domain. [Linux Today]
linuxtoday.com/stories/11686.html
- ruby-talk - Ruby mail list log/archive, powered by Shin-ichiro Hara's Ruby smart archiver.
blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
- Ruby.CHannel - Ruby information, downloads, resources, RWIKI Plus, online interpreter (try Ruby online), interactive tutorial, Programming Ruby Interactive. The last two combine text examples with the online interpreter to run them.
www.ruby.ch
- ruby.freak Unofficial Ruby Home Page - Many links, Ruby/Gtk, rbrowser, Today's goo analyzer, ML (topically sorted ruby-list); mostly Japanese, but enough English to follow many of the links.
ruby.freak.ne.jp
- Ruby.Weblogs.Com - Open discussion forum for everything Ruby.
ruby.weblogs.com
- Ruby: A Language with a Future - Hypermetrics Ruby page, small but growing: links, software, and 'Thirty-seven Reasons I Love Ruby'.
www.hypermetrics.com/ruby.html
- Ruby: a new language: Introducing the latest open source gem from Japan - In depth review and analysis. [IBM developerWorks]
www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ruby.html
- RubyCentral - The Source for Ruby: One-click Windows installer; online copy of 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide' under Open Publication License; more.
www.rubycentral.com
- RubyCocoa - Mac OS X Cocoa bindings for Ruby. Allows for native OS X function mixins and GUI component usage.
www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa
- RubyConf.org - Web focal point for organizing Ruby community's Annual Ruby Conference. Meet Matz. Enter the Conference T-shirt Design Contest. The 2nd conference is 1-3 November 2002, Seattle, Washington. See writeup and photos on conference 1.
www.rubyconf.org
- RubyRing - WebRing of Ruby sites, some in/with English material.
www.webring.ne.jp/cgi-bin/webring?ring=ruby;list
- rubyXML - Known as <rubyXML/>: news, articles, and links on XML development with the Ruby scripting language.
www.rubyxml.com
- The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC: Programming Ruby - Their home base: class reference, articles, tips, software downloads, links, and a zippy looking Ruby slide presentation. Book available as downloadable HTML and XML files.
www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html
- The Ruby Programming Language - Very clear introductory article by Ruby creator Yukihiro Matsumoto. [InformIT]
www.informit.com/matter/art0000016
- UnixApps: Ruby Project Information - Project status page: links, updates, comments.
www.unixapps.com/?page=application&database=history&hid=3556
- Why not Ruby? - Forum comments and discussion, with wide diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
slashdot.org/developers/01/07/08/1955209.shtml
- Why You Might Want to Try Ruby - Editorial with description and code; resulting forum comments and discussion of mostly positive opinion. [freshmeat.net]
freshmeat.net/articles/view/358
- Wiki: Ruby Garden Wiki - For discussing Ruby language and developing code.
www.rubygarden.com/ruby
- Wiki: RWiki - A wiki on Ruby, written in Ruby, with separate and intermixed Japanese and English pages. Whether you speak Japanese or English, you can edit these pages. Japanese is displayed with EUC encoded Japanese Kanji Characters.
www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/RWiki
- Ruby Garden - Premier site for tracking Ruby developments: forum; news, includes Ruby News Weekly (similar to Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!); announcements, future shock; biggest Ruby Wiki; useful surveys; links; people; libraries, ports.
www.rubygarden.org
- Ruby-lang.org - Interpreted, dynamically typed, pure object-oriented, scripting language for fast, easy programming, from Japan. Simple, straightforward, extensible. Many features to process text files and do system management, as in Perl. More elegant than Perl, fewer parentheses than Lisp. Japan has more users of Ruby than Python. [Open Source]
www.ruby-lang.org/en
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