Ruby Articles

Thirty-seven Reasons I Love Ruby

Ruby Article.

What's Shiny and New in Ruby 1.8.0?

Ruby article.

Why You Might Want to Try Ruby

Freshmeat article on ruby programming.

Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

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Getting Started With Ruby

This document presents some resources available to help newcomers to Ruby solve their problems, advance their knowledge, and participate in the Ruby community.

Ruby, an Introduction

A rather long article that is not quite a tutorial.

Creating Printable Documents with Ruby

In this article, Austin Ziegler introduces the creation of a variety of types of documents with PDF::Writer for Ruby. This introduction covers basic creation, partial document generation and customization, and Rails-generated documents.

The Fivefold Path

What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX

Ruby Source Code

CodeZoo

Ruby Component Directory

RubyForge

RubyForge is a home for open source Ruby projects.

RAA - Ruby Application Archive

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Ruby Sites

Ruby Home Page

You can download Ruby here and find all kinds of information and the latest news about the Ruby programming language.

Ruby Central

Articles, downloads and various ruby resources.

Ruby Wiki

Here you may explore the abundance of information on Ruby and participate by creating your own Ruby related wiki pages.

Ruby Weekly News

Ruby Weekly News is a summary of the week�s activity on the ruby-talk mailing list.

Ruby Garden

Various Ruby resources.

Ruby Downloads

RadRails

RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, debugging, WEBrick servers, generator wizards, syntax highlighting, data tools and much much more.

Download Ruby

Get the latest stable release of Ruby.

Ruby/.NET Bridge

The Ruby/.NET Bridge lets you use .NET and Ruby objects together in your programs. You can access .NET objects from Ruby and vice-versa.

Ruby Documentation

ruby-doc.org

News and Documentation for the Ruby Programing Languge

Ruby on Rails API

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Core Ruby Documentation

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Ruby Tutorials and Online Books

Learning Ruby

Ruby study notes that form a Ruby programming tutorial.

Little Book Of Ruby

Ruby tutorial ebook - PDF download.

Ruby

An introduction to Ruby programming complete with source code from Bitwise magazine.

Ruby Hacking Guide

This is a site that houses a project to translate the Ruby book from Japanese into English. So far it looks like four of nineteen chapters have been translated.

Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby

This also illustrates object-oriented design and it promotes the use of common, object-oriented design patterns. The algorithms and data structures in the book are presented in the Ruby programming language. Virtually all the data structures are presented in the context of a single class hierarchy. This commitment to a single design allows the programs presented in the later chapters to build upon the programs presented in the earlier chapters.

Learning Ruby

This is an online ruby programming tutorial in book form that can also be downloaded. It appears that it may still be under construction and currently goes up to creating you own classes and methods.

Programming Ruby

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide is an online ruby programming book that appears to be fairly comprehensive.

Learn to Program

A basic Ruby programming tutorial.

A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects

This is a draft book titled A Little Ruby, A Lot of Objects.

Ruby User Guide

Includes code examples.

(Poignant) Guide to Ruby

An online book about Ruby.

RubyCHannel Tutorial

This is an interactive tutorial with code that you can modify and have interpreted.

Ruby QuickRef

A Ruby quick reference in book format.

Qt Tutorial #1 - The 14 Steps

This tutorial gives an introduction to GUI programming using the Qt toolkit with QtRuby. It doesn't cover everything: the emphasis is on teaching the programming philosophy of GUI programming, and Qt's features are introduced as needed.

Ruby/Tk Tutorial

This tutorial is aimed at people that want to use Tk as toolkit with Ruby.

Python Tutorials

Instant Python

This is a minimal crash-course in the programming language Python. It is available in several different languages.

Python Tutorial

Python Tutorial at Python.org, July 20, 2001, Release 2.1.1.

The LiveWires Python Course

The LiveWires team produced a set of worksheets and a Python package (the LiveWires package) to teach Python. The material is released as open source and can be downloaded.

Python Bibliotheca

This site aims to be both a library of educational materials using Python to teach computer programming, and a virtual meeting place for teachers and students engaged in learning and teaching using Python.

Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python

All example python source code in this tutorial is granted to the public domain.

Python Short Course

Available as a powerpoint presentation, in pdf form, or viewable online in html format.

Python Performance Tips

This page is devoted to various tips and tricks that help improve the performance of your Python programs.

Python Programming Tutorial

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CGI in Python

The objective of this site is twofold: introduce new Python programmers to the core language and provide new CGI programmers with a conceptual CGI knowledge base through the use of Python.

Python for Science

Course materials for a course in Python in including exercises etc.

Python Source Code

CodeZoo

Python Component Directory

Python Cookbook at ActiveState.com

Looks like there are a lot of cool Python recipes here.

OpenSource library to create dynamic PDF

An easy package for high-quality dynamic personalized PDF documents in real-time & high volumes from any data sources

Python Source Code

Collection of Python source.

Python Official Sites

IronPython

IronPython is the code name of the early pre-alpha preview release of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers.

Python for .NET

Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers. Using this package you can script .NET applications or build entire applications in Python, using .NET services and components written in any language that targets the CLR (Managed C++, C#, VB, JScript).

IronPython

IronPython is a new Python implementation targeting the .NET and Mono platforms.

Python Home Page

Python central site as Python.org

ActivePython

ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Python, available for Linux, Solaris and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Python, we provide the ActivePython binary packages free to the community.

Official Python Download Page

Download the latest version of Python from this page.

Python Reference Manual

Release 2.1.1, July 20, 2001.

Python Library Reference

Official site at Python.org.

Python 2.1.1 Documentation

Download or browse online at Python.org.

Web Programming Topic Guide

This Topic Guide covers Web-related programming with Python. This includes a wide spectrum of tasks, ranging from simple CGI programming, generating and parsing HTML and XML, writing HTTP clients and servers

Database Topic Guide

This Topic Guide covers accessing relational databases from Python. The related issue of adding persistence to Python objects is also discussed. Links to relevant Python modules, documentation, and projects are provided.

Python Quick Reference

Downloadable Python reference.

Python Forums

Python SIGS

Archives of current and past listserv discussions on a LOT of interesting topics.