Notes / Ruby

Installation: RVM (Ruby Version Manager) is the best way to manage Ruby installations on Linux and Mac OSX. RubyInstaller is the quickest way to get Ruby installed on Windows.

Learning tools

• Tryruby - Try Ruby in your browser.
• Rubymonk - Interactive Ruby tutorials.

Books (Available online)

• _why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby
• Chris Pine’s Learning to Program
• Mr Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
• Michael Hartl’s Learn Rails by Example

Debugging tips

• I am a puts debuggerer - some useful debugging tips from tenderlove
• Ruby Debugging Cheat Sheet by Schneems

Bookmarked articles

• Learn advanced rake in 7 episodes (by Advi Grimm)
• 15 things for a Ruby beginner
• Why Ruby blocks exist
• Awesome Ruby - A collection of awesome Ruby libraries, tools, frameworks and software

Blogs

• Practicing Ruby
• Ruby Inside
• Ruby Flow

Contributing to Ruby

• How to Contribute to Ruby - resources that can help you get started in contributing to Ruby

Performance

• Fast Ruby: collection of fast Ruby idioms
• Fasterer suggests speed improvements in your code