An Invitation to Ruby Many links, review, comparison to other languages, code samples. http://www.math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/~gotoken/ruby/

Ruby-lang.org Interpreted, dynamically typed, pure object-oriented, scripting language for fast, easy programming, from Japan. Simple, straightforward, extensible. Many features to process text files and do system management, as in Perl. More elegant than Perl, fewer parentheses than Lisp. Japan has more users of Ruby than Python. [Open Source] http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

rubyXML Known as : news, articles, and links on XML development with the Ruby scripting language. http://www.rubyxml.com/

ruby-talk Ruby mail list log/archive, powered by Shin-ichiro Hara's Ruby smart archiver. http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml

Rubynet.org The Ruby Network: documents, mail lists, development space, programs, projects, modules, links. http://www.rubynet.org/

RubyGarden.org New threads and announcements from the ruby-talk mailing list (AKA comp.lang.ruby). http://www.rubygarden.com/

Ruby Garden Premier site for tracking many developments: forum; news, includes Ruby News Weekly (like Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!); announcements, future shock, biggest Ruby Wiki, useful surveys, links, people, libraries, ports. http://www.rubygarden.org/

ruby / K.Hiwada Ruby tips, rb2c Ruby to C converter; experimental Ruby JIT compiler. http://easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby/

Ruby User Groups Ruby Garden Wiki pages for many RUGs, in many nations, on most continents. http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyUserGroups

Object Oriented Language 'Ruby' Many useful, interesting scripts, patches, extension modules, and documentation. http://kt-www.jaist.ac.jp/~ttate/ruby/

RubyRing WebRing of Ruby sites, some in/with English material. http://www.webring.ne.jp/cgi-bin/webring?ring=ruby;list

First European Ruby Conference On 21-22 June 2003, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Fee: 20 Euros to pay for Matz's flight. Language: English, or German where everyone knows it. All are welcome. http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/europeRuby/tiki.cgi?c=v&p=EuropeanRubyConference

O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003: Ruby Sessions By track, 10 July. OSCON conference is 7-11 July 2002, Portland, Oregon. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/track_ruby.html

RHDL Page Ruby Hardware Description Language, implements EHDL in Ruby. Tar file download. [Open Source] http://www.aracnet.com/~ptkwt/ruby_stuff/RHDL/

Wiki: RWiki Wiki on Ruby, written in Ruby, with separate and intermixed English and Japanese pages. You can edit these pages in either language. Japanese is displayed with EUC encoded Japanese Kanji characters. http://rwiki.jin.gr.jp/cgi-bin/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;name=top

Comparing and Introducing Ruby Short introduction to features, compares Ruby to Perl, Python. [PDF] http://www.chemeng.ntnu.no/~haugwarb/Programming_languages/ruby_vs_perl_and_python.pdf

RubyCentral Ruby resource: One-click Windows installer; online copy of Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. [Open Publication License] http://www.rubycentral.com/

Ralph's Ruby Page Examples of MS technology being used with open source code. After 10 years with C++, VB, COM and associated MS technologies, Ruby is a lovely breath of fresh air. A few links, software download: Ruby.COM with documentation. http://www.geocities.com/masonralph/ruby.html

Developing GUIs with FOX and Ruby RubyConf 2001 talk slides. http://www.rubyconf.org/2001/talks/lyle/siframes.htm

Ruby: A Language with a Future Hypermetrics Ruby page, small but growing: links, software, and 'Thirty-seven Reasons I Love Ruby'. http://www.hypermetrics.com/ruby.html