Ruby Programming - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textboo Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language. Its creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a “Matz,” released it to the public in 1995. Its history is covered here. Its many features are listed here. The book is currently broken down into several sections and is intended to be read sequentially. Getting started will show how to install and get started with Ruby in your environment.
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Rolling with Ruby on Rails by Curt Hibbs 01/20/2005 Editor's note: Curt Hibbs and Bill Walton have updated this tutorial for Rails 1.2 in Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited and Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited, Part Two. We recommend those tutorials for all new Rails development. Also check out Bill Walton's monthly series, Cookin' With Ruby on Rails. Maybe you've heard about Ruby on Rails, the super productive new way to develop web applications, and you'd like to give it a try, but you don't know anything about Ruby or Rails.
Basic User Authentication in Rails This article walks through creating a basic authentication system in rails. Update: If you liked this article Digg it! The question of user authentication comes up regularly on the rails mailing list and there are several articles and discussions around the web on whether it should be part of the rails framework.
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Brian Leonard's Blog: Building a Ruby Sample for NetBeans Posted by bleonard on March 26, 2007 at 3:26 PM PDT We're in the process of creating some sample applications to ship with the NetBeans Ruby module, one of which will be based on the screencast, Putting Flickr on Rails. You can just download and run the sample project (you'll have to set your Flickr API Key), or build it from scratch as documented here. Setting Things Up
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