ruby_learning.md

Ruby Learning Links

Tutorials

• https://github.com/thoughtbot/trail-map
• http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/
• http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
• http://rubykoans.com/
• http://rubymonk.com/
• http://tryruby.org/
• http://www.jasimabasheer.com/posts/meta_introduction_to_ruby.html* http://railsforzombies.org/
• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html
• http://testfirst.org/learn_ruby
• http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/ruby
• http://www.codeschool.com/courses/ruby-bits
• http://rebuilding-rails.com/
• http://objectsonrails.com/

Sample apps

• https://github.com/elm-city-craftworks/practicing-ruby-web
• https://github.com/thoughtbot/ruby-science/tree/master/example_app
• https://github.com/rails3book/ticketee-v2
• http://railsapps.github.com/rails-examples-tutorials.html

Recommended code to read

Ruby

• cane: https://github.com/square/cane
• Capybara: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
• REST Client: https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client
• Savon: https://github.com/savonrb/savon
• Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn

Rails

• Comfortable Mexican Sofa: https://github.com/comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa
• Rubeque: https://github.com/SciMed/rubeque

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• http://practicingruby.com/
• http://www.pragprog.com/
• http://railsbest.com/
• http://readysetrails.com/
• http://subinterest.com/rubies-in-the-rough
• http://www.gschool.it/
• screencasts
• http://railscasts.com/pro
• http://destroyallsoftware.com
• http://rubytapas.com
• https://peepcode.com/
• http://teamtreehouse.com/library (was thinkvitamin)

Other ruby miscellany

• http://iwanttolearnruby.com/ (links)
• http://rakeroutes.com/blog/learning-ruby-rails-and-programming/ (link)
• https://github.com/generalassembly/ga-ruby-on-rails-for-devs
• http://www.rubyquiz.com/ (practice)
• http://rubyrogues.com/ (great podcast)
• http://github.com/bbatsov/ruby-style-guide
• https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior
• https://github.com/JoshCheek/ruby-kickstart
• http://hackety.com/
• https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview/index A Software as a Service course taught at The University of California, Berkeley. It covers many topics, including SaaS, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and the MVC architecture.
• http://www.therubygame.com/
• http://puzzlenode.com/
• https://github.com/SciMed/rubeque
• http://rubeque.com/
• http://confreaks.com/ (videos, also see vimeo, youtube, blip.tv, etc)
• http://www.rubymelee.com/ (down)

not really ruby, generally programming

• http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.ia-contest.com/
• http://projecteuler.net/
• http://codility.com/
• https://www.topcoder.com/
• http://thecodelesscode.com/contents
• http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/159808605/coding-without-ifs

online books

• http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
• http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/chapters/mechanize/
• http://xyzpub.com/en/ruby-on-rails/3.2/
• http://ruby.railstutorial.org/book/ruby-on-rails-tutorial?version=3.0
• http://rubybestpractices.com/
• http://sandal.github.com/rbp-book/pdfs/rbp_1-0.pdf
• http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
• http://web.archive.org/web/20090423015736/http://www.mockobjects.com/book/index.html
• http://oreilly.com/openbook/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books
• http://railsapps.github.com/best-recommended-learning-rails-books-resources.html
• http://everydayrails.com/2010/08/04/more-free-ruby-rails-books.html
• http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/
• http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
• http://openbook.galileocomputing.de/ruby_on_rails/
• http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Little-Book-Of-Ruby
• http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Book-Of-Ruby
• http://rails-nutshell.labs.oreilly.com/
• http://edwinmeyer.com/Integrated_RHG.html

$$$ books

• https://learn.thoughtbot.com/products/13 rubyscience
• http://clean-ruby.com/
• http://exceptionalruby.com/
• http://objectsonrails.com/
• http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/06/05/confident-ruby-beta/
• eloquent ruby
• the ruby programming language (pickaxe)
• agile web development with rails (pragprog)
• http://www.poodr.info/ with code https://github.com/skmetz/poodr

other online stuff not ruby because why not

• http://rubymotion-tutorials.com/
• https://github.com/arcturo/library
• http://www.rustforrubyists.com/book/index.html
• http://www.12factor.net/
• http://eloquentjavascript.net/
• http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
• http://openmymind.net/2012/1/23/The-Little-Redis-Book/
• https://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch00.html
• http://smacss.com/book/type-base
• http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-1.html
• http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers
• http://singlepageappbook.com/
• http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Component+Development+Tutorial
• http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Assembly+Competition+Tutorial
• http://openvim.com/tutorial.html
• http://lifehacker.com/5935322/khan-academy-computer-science-teaches-you-to-code-through-exploration
• http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp.html
• https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/published/understanding-backbone.md/
• http://www.developerdrive.com/2012/07/introduction-to-sass/
• http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/index-en.html
• http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/keyboarding.php
• http://e2project.org/ learning erlang
• CouchDB
• ProGit
• Rails 2.3.8
• Rails 3.0 and hackfest
• Dive into HTML5
• Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
• Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Programming Scala
• DocBook
• HTML Ref
• Rails 3 in a Nutshell
• Programming Android
• iPhone 3D

Code Converters

• http://html2haml.heroku.com/
• http://js2coffee.org/
• http://css2sass.heroku.com/
• :) https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/

Online REPLs

• A list of a bunch: http://repl.it/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3056490
• http://rubular.com/ for ruby regular expressions
• Kerning http://type.method.ac/

Tutorials

Ruby

• http://tryruby.org/

Python

• http://try-python.appspot.com/
• http://www.trypython.org/ requires silverlight
• http://people.csail.mit.edu/pgbovine/python/tutor.html#mode=edit

Redis

• http://try.redis-db.com/

Clojure

• http://tryclj.com/
• http://www.4clojure.com/

Haskell

• http://tryhaskell.org/
• http://haskelllive.com/

Erlang

• http://www.tryerlang.org/

MongoDB

• http://try.mongodb.org/

Scala

• http://www.tryscala.com/

Fiddling

Node.js and jasmine

• https://github.com/benrady/jezebel

Javascript

• http://jsfiddle.net/
• http://jsbin.com/
• http://www.jshint.com/ linting ** packer: http://dean.edwards.name/packer/ ** decompressor: http://jsbeautifier.org/

Jasmine

• http://try-jasmine.heroku.com/

Coffeescript

• http://coffeescript.org/

Regular Expressions

• http://rubular.com/
• http://rubyxp.com/ (I really like this)
• https://github.com/martinisoft/graffiti
• http://rentzsch.github.com/JSRegexTeststand/

ARC

• http://arclanguage.org/item?id=12212 http://evanrmurphy.posterous.com/try-arc-todo

Other

• vim color schemes http://bytefluent.com/vivify/
• Google closure compiler http://code.google.com/closure/