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- Ruby on Rails Tutorial: From Zero to Deploy
- Aug 15, 2012
- In this first chapter, Michael Hartl shows you how to install all the necessary Ruby on Rails software and set up your development environment. You then create your first Rails application, and then put it under version control with Git.. And, believe it or not, in this chapter you even put your first app on the wider web by deploying it to production.
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- Ruby: The Last Eight Years
- Apr 29, 2015
- Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way, points out some of the extensive changes Ruby has experienced in less than a decade. By paying attention to why and how programming languages evolve, we can learn from experience and past mistakes, deliberately changing the language (and especially our usage of it) for a better future.
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- Testing .NET Applications Using IronRuby
- May 4, 2010
- IronRuby unleashes the power of Ruby to the .NET world. One of the most interesting opportunities is that now you can use Ruby's testing frameworks to test .NET code. In this article, Shay Friedman shows you how to take advantage of popular testing frameworks to test your .NET code with ease.
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- The Meta-Guide To Learning Ruby
- Feb 1, 2011
- Really mastering a new programming language, certainly one as flexible and fluid as Ruby, is not easy. Russ Olsen offers some tips to ease the pain and speed yourself down the road to Ruby mastery.
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- The Ruby Programming Language
- Jun 12, 2000
- You've heard of Perl, but Ruby? This new language from Japan is quickly gaining interest. Here, Ruby's creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, tells you why Perl and Python just aren't good enough.
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- The Ruby Reading List
- Oct 13, 2011
- In the last ten years the Ruby programming language has gone from an obscure open source project to the expansive technology behind some of the world’s most visible web properties. In this article Russ Olsen points out some of the Ruby ‘must reads’, web sites and books that will help the new Ruby programmer get started.
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- Video: Effective Ruby: Consider Using a Default Hash Value
- Dec 3, 2015
- In this excerpt from Effective Ruby LiveLessons (Video Training), learn why you should consider using a default hash value in Ruby.
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- Video: Effective Ruby: Prefer Lambda Instead of Proc
- Dec 1, 2015
- In Ruby, there are a number of ways to create anonymous pieces of code that we can move throughout our application. Proc is one such was to create an anonymous callable. However, in this excerpt from Effective Ruby LiveLessons (Video Training), learn why you should prefer lambda instead of proc.
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- Video: Effective Ruby: Use the === Protocol for Matching Tasks
- Nov 27, 2015
- In this excerpt from Effective Ruby LiveLessons (Video Training), learn about the === protocol built into Ruby, which is the universal match protocol for all objects in the Ruby system.
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- Working with Collections in Ruby
- Sep 9, 2008
- Working with Collections in Ruby is easy. Jason D. Clinton shows you how.
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- Working with Strings
- Jan 5, 2007
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- Working with Strings in Ruby
- Mar 16, 2015
- A string is simply a sequence of characters. Like most entities in Ruby, strings are first-class objects. In everyday programming, we need to manipulate strings in many ways. We want to concatenate strings, tokenize them, analyze them, perform searches and substitutions, and more. In this chapter from The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, 3rd Edition, Hal Fulton and André Arko show you how Ruby makes most of these tasks easy.
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