Ruby Tutorials — Libraries

Bind allows you to invoke actions whenever a file system event has occurred. For example refreshing any number of browsers concurrently in the background while editing website assets. This is a life saver for cross browser JavaScript, CSS, or even HTML web design.

So simple and easy I do not even need to speak in this screencast!

So you discovered Ruby's Rack 'web framework framework', and would like to know how to extend it, this is done using Rack middleware. We will go through creating a basic Rack application, and a JSON response middleware.

Tutorial on how to use the Advanced User Interface in WxRuby, it's good for creating cool desktop applications.

A discussion on custom key commands and custom behavior.

Tutorial on the basics of the Scintilla component in WxRuby, it's used to create syntax coloring and more to create great programming editors.

This tutorial describes how to create a registration form with the Ruby framework Merb (RoR alternative) and the Ruby ORM Datamapper. It covers most things such as, templating with ERB and validation of user input.

Testing fever has infected the Ruby programming community, and the infection is spreading. One of the most promising innovations in testing in the past year is the introduction and rapid growth of RSpec, a behavior-driven testing tool. Learn how RSpec can change the way you think about testing.

A walkthrough of building an extension for Ruby in C with code examples that only take a few minutes to follow.