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course 5.1.1.5

A first course in Ruby. This course is designed with Perl programmers in mind. In the process of introducting Ruby, we'll contrast Ruby to Perl, anchoring Ruby's syntax and idioms to what you already know about Perl.

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5.1.1.5 Introduction to Ruby

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Ruby Headquarters All things Ruby.

Programming Ruby The first edition of the popular Pickaxe book.

Quick Reference Handy 2-page quick reference.

Built-in Class Documentation Reference to methods in built-in classes and modules. Explore Fixnum, Range, String Array, and Hash to start.

Tim Bray Tries Ruby Tim Bray contributed to XML and Atom is currently heads Web Technologies at Sun. This is a blog entry on his initial impressions of Ruby.

FreeRide - the Ruby Editor The Ruby IDE for Ruby written in Ruby. Available for Linux/Win.