Ruby Tutorials

Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. We’ve started a new screencast series here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go along with Ruby development. In this chapter, we’ll be looking at how conditional statements and loops work in Ruby.

How to create a Jabber/MSN/AIM bot using the Ruby language and XMPP through the Jabber bot library.

Essential Learning for Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails for Designers

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.

It is a common Ruby misconception that certain argument handling techniques are faster than others, as well as using constants will increase the performance of your app compared to that of using locally scoped literals for regular expressions, strings, etc. Some frameworks such as Merb take pride in performance, and contain single ruby scripts packed with constants just for this reason. That being said until someone can prove these benchmarks wrong, we are seeing very little changes in results.

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.

Be confused no more! metaclasses and metaprogramming explained with great ease.

Basic hash, regular expressions and blocks tutorial.