34 Ruby and Rails Tutorials and Resources

February 6, 2007 by · 2 Comments 

Get to grips with Ruby and Ruby on Rails with 34 of the very best tutorials, resources and articles gathered from the net.

  • Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials - A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read a lot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful.
  • Installing Ruby on Rails – This how-to is aimed at getting you started with Ruby on Rails installed on the Fedora Core 4 Linux distribution using the Lighttpd web server and mySQL database server.
  • Try Ruby in your Browser (http://tryruby.hobix.com/) – Got 15 minutes? Give Ruby a shot right now.

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  • Learning Ruby – Covers the fundamentals of writing a program. It is required knowledge for anyone aspiring to program in Ruby.
  • Learning Ruby: A Guide to Online Tutorials, Examples and Downloads – This article will present the best Ruby tutorials, examples and downloads I’ve found over the course of the last year.
  • Ruby Learning – rubylearning.com is a thorough collection of Ruby study notes for those who are new to the language.

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  • Ruby Cheat Sheet (http://ruby.cenophobie.com/RubyCheat.pdf) – Cheat sheet for Ruby1.8.4
  • Ruby FAQ – Questions and answers on Ruby.
  • Ruby Tutorials – Tutorialized section on Ruby.
  • Ruby Central (http://www.rubycentral.com/) - A growing web resource for everything to do with the Ruby language.
  • Top 30 – Ruby on Rails Tutorials.
  • Code Beach -More Ruby tutorials.
  • Why’s (poignant) guide to Ruby (http://poignantguide.net/ruby/) – This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yet hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.
  • Programming Ruby – The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide
  • Ruby on Rails – Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.

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  • Typo 2.5 Theme Tutorial – The new Rails-based typo blog engine is out – Packed with many new features, it’s no longer a lightweight blogging engine.
  • Ruby on Rails – This is Geoffrey Grosenbach’s blog, covering Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
  • Ruby on Rails Tutorials – We have made some of the tutorials for Ruby on Rails freely available to help you evaluate our training.
  • Ruby Quick Ref – Quick refference guide for Ruby.
  • Getting Started With Ruby – What Ruby lacks more than anything is good starting points for getting into the language. There’s a bunch of absolutely excellent resources out there, though. I’ve attempted to summarize the best of them by category.
  • The Ruby Quiz – Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week.
  • Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Maybe you’ve heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you’d like to give it a try.
  • Ruby on Rails : An extensive roundup of resources, projects, books, links, hosts and more.
  • Ruby Inside – Ruby Inside is a weblog dedicated to Ruby and its associated technologies, including Ruby on Rails.

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  • Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet – The Ruby On Rails cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a developers desk.

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  • Ruby Code and Style – Sharing the pleasure of programming in Ruby.
  • 19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don’t Know – When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren’t. As much for my own memory as yours, I thought I’d list down some Rails tricks and tips that can make your application or code more efficient.
  • The Complete Guide to Rails Plugins – Plugins are self-contained libraries made specially for Rails. They are a great way to reuse someone else’s code or to package your own code for reuse.
  • Ruby Development Center – Yahoo! Developer Network – Ruby Developer Center.
  • HappyCodr – Ruby on Rails Showcase

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Oliver Dale runs Kooc Media, A UK-Based web company which specialises in Web Apps, Online Communities, Wordpress Tutorials & Wordpress Plugins.

Comments

2 Responses to “34 Ruby and Rails Tutorials and Resources”
  1. shaz says:

    ruby seems to be very very hot right now ive not gone near it but i think i may have to check it out after ive accomplished AS3 guru-dom

  2. rock says:

    thanx