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A Joyful Gem
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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]
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An Interview with the Creator of Ruby
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Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, discusses Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'. [O'Reilly Network]
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An Introduction to Ruby
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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]
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Interview with the Creator of Ruby
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Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
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Obie, Has It Been 9 Years Already?
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Matz Roundtable Notes from Friday night at RubyConf 2005, as questions and answers. [Obie Fernandez Weblog]
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Programming in Ruby
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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]
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Programming in the Ruby Language
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Forum comments and discussion related to July IBM developerWorks Ruby article, with the usual diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
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Programming Ruby
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Forum comments and discussion on Ruby and the book 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]
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Ruby + XML
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News and articles on the Ruby programming language and XML.
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Ruby Creator Y. Matsumoto
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Interview with Matz, explains motives and early history, job duties, 10 top tips for those going into computing, focus on the human. [CIPS Connections]
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Ruby-lang.org Opens Online!
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Announcement of Ruby-lang domain and website. [Linux Today]
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The Ruby Programming Language
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Very clear introductory article by Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. [InformIT]
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Using MySQL with Ruby
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By Paul DuBois. Two parts: Using the Ruby MySQL Module, Using the Ruby DBI Module. HTML, PDF; online, downloads (tar, zip). [Kitebird.com]
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Using the Ruby MySQL Module
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Article describes how to install the Tomita Masahiro's MySQL module and use it to write MySQL-based Ruby scripts. By Paul DuBois.
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What Can Ruby Do for the Enterprise?
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By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier. Not only is Ruby advancing, but other languages are taking cues from it. O'Reilly Network technical editor chromatic says Ruby influences Perl 6 design. Short text, a few links. [NewsFactor]
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Why Not Ruby?
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Forum comments and discussion, with wide diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]
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Why You Might Want to Try Ruby
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Editorial with description and code; resulting forum comments and discussion of mostly positive opinion. [freshmeat.net]
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37signals: Programming at Warp Speed
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Lesson: Create a simple product as fast as you can, then get feedback from customers and make it better. Chicago firm uses Ruby and premade software from Rails. [BusinessWeek]
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Bypassing the GUI
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By Brian Marick. Testing through a GUI is hard, testing through a scripting interface is easier. Example uses Ruby to test Word through COM. [Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine]
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Delightful Languages: Ruby
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Medium length positive review, with code samples, references; PDF format. [The Perl Review]
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Making Waves in the Ruby World
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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.
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Programming in the Ruby Language
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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]
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Ruby: Productive Programming Language
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Short positive overview, explains Ruby by comparing with some other languages; focus on production; code samples, forum with many comments. [Linux Journal]
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