Ruby

Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language which is gaining in popularity, largely because of the much loved Ruby on Rails. There seems to be a new Ruby book published every month. O'Reilly reports that sales on Ruby books in 2005 eclipsed those on Python books!)

Links

• Ruby Homepage
• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby Central (Language Documentation)
• Programming Ruby (reviews: Slashdot | Linux Journal)
• The Ruby Way (reviews: Slashdot | Linux Journal)
• The Ruby Quiz (a weekly programming challenge)
• 37 Reasons to Love Ruby
• comp.lang.ruby
• WIRI (Web Interface to Ruby Information)

Ruby and XML

• REXML: Homepage | Tutorial
• REXML Tutorial (from O'Reilly's xml.com)

Good Stuff

• Setting up IRB: Wirble (tab completion, saving history across sessions, etc.) | RubyGarden.org