A free e-book that teaches Ruby in a not lame way.
Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book covers the Ruby language from the very basics of using puts to put naughty phrases on the screen all the way to serving up your favorite web page from WEBrick or connecting to your favorite web service. Written in a conversational narrative rat...
Like to write code in a functional style a la Haskell or Scheme? That's cool; Ruby does that. Really dig object orientation like Java or Smalltalk? No problem; Ruby handles that, too. Prefer to use a procedural (a.k.a. imperative) style like Forth or Ada? Ruby can "get its procedure o...