This category is for articles on the Ruby programming language. Some of these are reviews, most of them are not.
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- Interview with the Creator of Ruby Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
- Programming in the Ruby Language Forum comments and discussion related to July IBM developerWorks Ruby article, with the usual diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
- Using MySQL with Ruby By Paul DuBois. Two parts: Using the Ruby MySQL Module, Using the Ruby DBI Module. HTML, PDF; online, downloads (tar, zip). [Kitebird.com]
- A Joyful Gem By Rick Wayne. Short positive review, with code samples. Full text, in an email; to see it on magazine website one must register. [Software Development]
- Ruby-lang.org Opens Online! Announcement of Ruby-lang domain and website. [Linux Today]
- Using the Ruby MySQL Module Article describes how to install the Tomita Masahiro's MySQL module and use it to write MySQL-based Ruby scripts. By Paul DuBois.
- Making Waves in the Ruby World Three Ruby projects stand out (JRuby, Mongrel, Ruport) not so much for development, but for communicating well, something many projects do less well. Linux Journal.
- Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto: Ruby Design Principles What makes a good programming language? It helps human thoughts, helps us think better, and makes us better programmers. Interview with brief summary, MP3 download. IT Conversations.
- Obie, Has It Been 9 Years Already? Matz Roundtable Notes from Friday night at RubyConf 2005, as questions and answers. [Obie Fernandez Weblog]
- Ruby: Productive Programming Language Short positive overview, explains Ruby by comparing with some other languages; focus on production; code samples, forum with many comments. [Linux Journal]
- An Interview with the Creator of Ruby Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, discusses Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'. [O'Reilly Network]
- An Introduction to Ruby Explains that the world can use another language for the simple reason that Ruby makes programming fun again, and that's what counts. Introduction via examining high-level Ruby traits, and distinguishing traits. [O'Reilly Network]
- Programming Ruby Forum comments and discussion on Ruby and the book 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
- Ruby: A Gem of a Language First of 4-part series introduces Ruby programming, begins with variables, quotes, arrays, objects, methods. Later parts treat more advanced topics. By Joshua Drake, author of Linux books and co-founder of Command Prompt, Inc. [IBM developerWorks]
- Ruby Creator Y. Matsumoto Interview with Matz, explains motives and early history, job duties, 10 top tips for those going into computing, focus on the human. [CIPS Connections]
- The Ruby Programming Language Very clear introductory article by Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. [InformIT]
- Why You Might Want to Try Ruby Editorial with description and code; resulting forum comments and discussion of mostly positive opinion. [freshmeat.net]
- Why Not Ruby? Forum comments and discussion, with wide diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
- Programming in Ruby Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add the convenience and power of Perl, but without the special cases and magic conversions. Give it a clean syntax based partly on Eiffel, add a few concepts from Scheme, CLU, Sather, Common Lisp. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]