Xah's Ruby Tutorial

Xah Lee, 2012-11-29

THIS TUTORIAL IS WORK IN PROGRESS. 2012-12-10 When robust, this paragraph will be removed.

This tutorial is concrete, example based. This tutorial assumes you are a expert in one scripting language (⁖ Perl, Python, PHP, Lisp) and familiar with basic unix shell commands. Examples are based on Ruby 1.9 on Linux.

Ruby

How to Install Ruby; What's RVM, Gem, Rake, Bundler, RDoc, ri, irb?

Ruby Language Basics

Ruby: Quoting Long String and Heredoc

Unicode in Ruby 💎

Intro to Reading Ruby Doc: What's M, C, ::, # ?

Ruby: Predefined Variables

Ruby on Rails

You should know the basics of Ruby language first.

Rails Install and Intro

Ruby on Rails Basic Tutorial

Reference

Ruby References Intro

Misc

• Ruby: Misc Notes
• Ruby: Problem Installing mysql2 rmagick?
• Ruby Version Release Dates