[Gridflow-dev] Re: ruby resources (fwd)

Mon May 2 14:00:06 EDT 2005

In case anyone is looking for Ruby inspirations, here are a few (eight) 
abridged mails from the ruby-talk mailing-list, that contain links that 
may be interesting. Note that, although many of them are general-purpose, 
many of them are also about specific projects that happen to interest the 
original poster and not necessarily other people.

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:59:35 +0900
From: Dan Fitzpatrick <dan at eparklabs.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: ruby resources

I've been working with Ruby for about 30 days. These are my links or particular 
interest:

http://ruby-lang.org/en/
http://www.rubycentral.com/ref/
http://www.postgresql.jp/interfaces/ruby/reference.html
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?OneLiners
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubywebdialogs/index.html
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl
http://fhwang.net/blog/40.html
http://rrr.jin.gr.jp/doc/csv/
http://www.rickbradley.com/chron/20030625/
http://www.deveiate.org/code/IO-Reactor.html
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/
http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=dRuby
http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html
http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/rubyguide.html
http://rafb.net/paste/results/nZsui045.html
http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/lang/ruby/
http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus8/html/book.html

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:30:58 +0900
From: Thursday <nospam at nospam.nospam.nospam.nospam.org>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: ruby resources

Taken from http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnTheNet

Interactive ruby resources:
---------------------------
irc://irc.freenode.net/ruby-lang - the #ruby-lang channel is popular. More 
info
at RubyOnIRC
http://www.ruby-forum.org/bb/ - a forum for ruby novices to ask questions
news://comp.lang.ruby - the ruby newsgroup

Ruby websites:
--------------
http://www.ruby-lang.org/ - ruby home
http://www.ruby-doc.org/ - ruby docs and online reference
http://www.rubyforge.org/ - rubyforge ruby projects
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/ - ruby application archive
Ruby Code Examples and Snippets:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/ - ruby pleac
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyOnlineCookbook - ruby cookbook

Popular ruby and ruby-related projects:
----------------------------------------
http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl - ruby installer for 
Windows
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems/ - rubygems ruby package manager
http://www.yaml.org/ - ruby 1.8 includes built-in yaml support
http://www.rubyonrails.com/ - web framework in ruby
http://rubyforge.org/projects/instiki/ - wiki in ruby

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 08:19:20 +0900
From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra at yakima-herald.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: new to this language

Here's a great link that is not published much but has a ton of code
examples that I found very useful:
         http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ruby/index.html

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:45:48 +0900
From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus at gmail.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Complete beginner in programming

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:12:19 +0900, Roger Grosswiler <roger at gwch.net> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am a complete beginner in programming, i can handle some lines in 
perl. Does anybody know a EASY source to learn
> oo-programming?

This seems to be a good tutorial, based in Ruby and targeted towards
new programmers:
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

... and you don't have to buy it :)

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 23:47:51 +0900
From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Complete beginner in programming

[...]

Then checkout:
    * Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days
    * The Pickaxe Book (forget the real name, by Dave Thomas, Programming 
in
Ruby, iirc)
    * The Ruby Way

and see if one or more of them talks to your head

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:39:47 +0900
From: Dave Burt <dave at burt.id.au>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: Re: Complete beginner in programming

[...]

If you grab that book (I can't vouch for it myself), you can follow Al 
Abut
as he blogs his 21 days of learning Ruby, starting here, just this past
Monday:

http://alabut.com/nonsense/2005/03/ruby-self-tutorial-day-1-of-21-getting.html

You'll find a couple of parallel blogs linked from there, and if you want 
a
commentary/narrative to learn with rather than from, then this could be 
just
what you want.

Cheers,
Dave

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:56:33 +0900
From: "\"Peña, Botp\"" <botp at delmonte-phil.com>
Reply-To: ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk at ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Complete beginner in programming

Bill Kelly [mailto:billk at cts.com] wrote:

--snipped helpful irb samples

> A couple links that emphasize interactive learning about
> objects (in Ruby)
> http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/

yap. this is good, too. the screenshots will spoil you. I remember a ruby
tutorial page like this that was interactive. Yes, you can write program 
on
the page and execute it, but i forgot the url.. maybe others can provide.

> http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-3.html
>   (Ch. 3 of http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/ )

This one, i cannot show yet to my kids. They do not understand advanced
humor yet :-)

kind regards -botp