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Ultimate List of Ruby Resources

This is the first post, named “Ruby”, in a series of “Ultimate List of … Resources”. I’m going to compose several lists for different topics I encounter during my development work. To start, I begin with Ruby. Later, I will add “Ultimate Lists” about Ruby on Rails, Subversion, AJAX and some other topics.

Feel free to let me know if I missed an important resource. I’m also open to suggestions about other “Ultimate Lists”.

For now, you’ll have to settle for the “Ultimate List of Ruby Resources”.

Books

  1. "Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition" by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
  2. "The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming" by Hal Fulton
  3. "Ruby Cookbook" by Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson
  4. "Everyday Scripting with Ruby: For Teams, Testers, and You" by Brian Marick
  5. "Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional" by Peter Cooper
  6. "Ruby In A Nutshell" by Yukihiro Matsumoto
  7. "Enterprise Integration with Ruby" by Maik Schmidt
Online manuals and API's
  1. Noobkit — Easily searchable Ruby API
  2. Core API documentation
  3. Ruby Standard Library
Groups, chat, forums, wiki and other community websites
  1. Ruby Forum: Ruby
  2. Ruby Forum: Ruby Core
  3. comp.lang.ruby — Newsgroup
  4. Ruby-talk-google — Google Group
Ruby Blogs (is yours listed yet? — Let me know!)
  1. O'Reilly Ruby Blog
  2. Ruby Inside
  3. RubyCorner