Welcome
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 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!
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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