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Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
About Ruby's Growth
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Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has drawn devoted coders worldwide. In 2006, Ruby achieved mass acceptance. With active user groups formed in the world's major cities and Ruby-related conferences filled to capacity.
Ruby-Talk, the primary mailing list for discussion of the Ruby language has climbed to an average of 200 messages per day.
The TIOBE index, which measures the growth of programming languages, ranks Ruby as #9 among programming languages worldwide. Much of the growth is attributed to the popularity of software written in Ruby, particularly the Ruby on Rails web framework2.
Ruby is also totally free. Not only free of charge, but also free to use, copy, modify, and distribute.
- Ruby Source Code: Ruby 1.8.7-p72
(md5: 5e5b7189674b3a7f69401284f6a7a36d)
- Ruby on Windows: Ruby 1.8.6 One-Click Installer
(md5: 00540689d1039964bc8d844b2b0c7db6)
- Official Site: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
- Learn to Program: A wonderful little tutorial by Chris Pine for programming newbies.
http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ - Ruby User's Guide: Translated from the original Japanese version written by Yukihiro Matsumoto (the creator of Ruby), this version, by Goto Kentaro and Mark Slagell is nice overview of many aspects of the Ruby language.
http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/ - Ruby Standard Library Reference: Also pulled from the source code using RDoc, this reference work documents the standard library.
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib