Ruby Resources
Eight of the best places online for Ruby beginners and experts, discovered and shared for you.
A Tumblr blog filled with short, interesting and practical tidbits about the Ruby language, and the Ruby on Rails framework.
Ruby Quick Tips
rubyquicktips.tumblr.com
Rails Guides
guides.rubyonrails.org
The official Ruby on Rails guides, which are packed full of amazing information on the framework itself, as well as lots of information on tangential subjects like testing and deployment techniques.
Try Ruby
tryruby.org
An online IRB client, allowing you to either quickly try out some Ruby code, or follow through some excellent tutorials on Ruby from the comfort of your browser.
Watch screencasts on subjects from Ruby to Rails, from testing to database management. Best part: it’s all 100% free. Even if you’re not interested in Ruby itself, you’re likely to still find something cool here.
Railscasts
railscasts.com
RubyGems.org
rubygems.org
The entire Ruby community relies on sharing code with others, and that wouldn’t be possible without the ambitious RubyGems project. RubyGems allows people to package up their Ruby code into sharable plugins called “gems”. Search the RubyGems.org website to find some great plugins, or start publishing your own!
Phusion Blog
blog.phusion.nl
As one of the premier Ruby on Rails development houses in the world, Phusion have developed a reputation for providing the open source community with some of the most important tools in a Ruby developer’s arsenal; notably, they developed Passenger (a module for Apache and Nginx used to serve Ruby based websites) and Ruby Enterprise Edition (a production safe, memory optimised build of Ruby).
Perhaps it’s cliche to mention to official Ruby site, but it’s packed full of useful documentation, links to external resources on Ruby, and the latest news on fixes and updates to the language itself.
Ruby Official Website
ruby-lang.org
Why's (Poignant) Guide To Ruby
mislav.uniqpath.com
Although “Why” (a mysterious developer with an interesting name and imagination) is no longer an active part of the Ruby community, he left behind his legacy with his “(poignant) guide to Ruby” book. It is now considered one of the seminal books to read as a beginner learning Ruby.