Learn about Ruby and programming

New to Ruby or programming? Take a look at our list of resources for learning Ruby and programming. Also join us at the monthly Ruby Beginners Meetups, details are in the “Participate” section on the homepage.

• Programming
  • Chris Pine’s “Learn To Program” online book
• Ruby
  • APIdock documentation for Ruby’s API
  • Rubular an interactive Ruby regular expression editor
• Web
  • Sinatra is a easy to use tool for writing web applications, and is probably a better place to start than with Rails. Consider using it with Sequel for using a database.
  • Ruby on Rails is a powerful web application framework.
    • Rails Guides provides examples for how to use most Rails features, and is what most Rails programmers rely on.
    • Ruby on Rails Tutorial great book for beginners that covers a lot of material (a free html version is also provided).
    • Rails for Zombies is a fun, interactive course for learning Rails basics.
    • APIdock documentation for Rails’ API
• Databases
  • Tools
    • Sequel is an easy to use toolkit for interacting with relational databases, and is probably a better place to start with databases than ActiveRecord.
  • Classes
    • Coursera online database course
• Git
  • Think Like (a) Git