Welcome

Introduction:

This is my Ruby links page - it's got some good links back!

Ruby Links

Ruby on Rails Handbook - lots of links!! (from DavidI's blog)

Ruby Lang - the mother lode!!!

Things that newcomers to Ruby should know...

Ruby Central

Ruby Gems - the package management system for Ruby, and much more...

The home of the Pickaxe book - Pragmatic Programmers (I have this book - it's brilliant!!)

A Win32 installer for complete Windows Ruby happiness!

An SQLite addin for Ruby

RDT - RubyEclipse Ruby plugin for Eclipse - works very neatly..

Ruby/.NET Bridge Update: old site, but code did work!)

Ruby and Delphi integration - Apollo

Embedding Ruby in Delphi - RubyComp

RubyForge - the Ruby project repository

Old Ruby Links

"cookbook" with many algorithm and code examples - PLEAC-Ruby

Numerical computation in Ruby Numerical Ruby

Ruby and Numerical Arrays which consume a large amount of memory and/or CPU time NArray part of Numerical Ruby

Update: For speeding up some parts of your Ruby code by writing them in C, try RubyInLine
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/).

Ruby to C translation, consider rb2c
(http://easter.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~hiwada/ruby/rb2c/).

Ruby and C/C++ integration, consider SWIG
(http://www.swig.org/).

Ruby and Java integration, consider JRuby
(http://jruby.codehaus.org/).

embedding Python in Ruby, consider Ruby/Python
(http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FPython).

embedding Lua in Ruby, consider Ruby-Lua
(http://ruby-lua.unolotiene.com/ruby-lua.whtm).

For creating a stand-alone (Windows) executable, consider exerb
(http://exerb.sourceforge.jp/index.en.html).

For manipulating raw bits, instead of using Fixnums, consider BitVector
(http://www.ce.chalmers.se/~feldt/ruby/extensions/bitvector/).

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