Ruby Learning Resources [WikiLists]

[DanRathbun]

All seven of the lists below are set as wikis.

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INDEX

• PRIMERS & GUIDES

• BOOKS

• TUTORIALS

• REFERENCE

• TEMPLATES

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• NEWS

• IDEAS

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This thread is always a work in progress.

[DanRathbun]

PRIMERS & GUIDES

(A list of primers and introductory guides for learning Ruby.)

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• About Ruby
  by ruby-lang.org

• 37 Reasons to Love Ruby
  by Hal Fulton, RubyHacker.com, author of “The Ruby Way”.

• Ruby in Twenty Minutes, pgs 4
  by ruby-lang.org

• Ruby Users Guide
  by Mark Slagell, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

• Ruby From Other [Programming] Languages
  by ruby-lang.org

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• Ruby Core Primers for v 2.0.0
  by ruby-lang.org
  • Keywords (*v1.9)
    • “using” keyword added in v2.0 (see Refinements.)
  • Global Variables
  • Regular Expressions
  • Security
  • Syntax
    • Assignment
    • Calling Methods
    • Control Expressions
    • Exceptions
    • Literals
    • Methods
    • Miscellaneous
    • Modules and Classes
    • Precedence
    • Refinements

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[DanRathbun]

BOOKS

(A list of full books for learning Ruby.)

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~ Ruby Generic ~

( DOWNLOADABLE )

• “I Love Ruby” (latest edition)
  by A.K. Karthikeyan
  Link is at the bottom of the examples README, for the current dropbox location:
  https://github.com/mindaslab/ilrx/blob/master/README.md

• “I Love Ruby” (2016-3-14 edition)
  by A.K. Karthikeyan
  ** PDF
  I_Love_Ruby_2016-3-14.pdf (2.1 MB)
  (Posted here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3, see pg 5.)

• “I Love Ruby” (2015 Beta edition - with belly dancer cover)
  by A.K. Karthikeyan
  ** PDF
  I_Love_Ruby_2015.pdf (2.3 MB)
  (Posted here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3, see pg 5.)

• “I Love Ruby Examples”
  Git repository of all the Ruby script examples in the “I Love Ruby” book(s).
  by A.K. Karthikeyan
  https://github.com/mindaslab/ilrx

• “Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (1st Edition)”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.6 )
  By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
  Copyright © 2000, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
  Released under the terms of the Open Publication License V1.0.

• MS Windows CHM (Compiled Help Markup) file:
  ProgrammingRuby_1stEd.zip (744.3 KB)

• “The Book of Ruby”
  by Huw Collingbourne
  ** PDF
  http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IMG/zip/book-of-ruby.zip

• “The Little Book of Ruby”
  by Huw Collingbourne
  ** PDF
  http://www.sapphiresteel.com/IMG/pdf/LittleBookOfRuby.pdf

• “Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book”
  by Jeremy McAnally
  ** PDF
  http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/hlrb.pdf

• “Ruby Best Practices”
  by Gregory T. Brown
  ** PDF
  http://www.mathieu.gagnon.name/random/rbp_1-0.pdf

• “Extending Ruby 1.9: Writing Extensions in C”
  by Dave Thomas
  ** PDF
  https://media.pragprog.com/titles/ruby3/ext_ruby.pdf

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( ONLINE )

• “Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (1st Edition)”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.6 )
  By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
  Copyright © 2000, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
  phrogz.net (framed)
  ruby-doc.com (framed)

• “Ruby Essentials”
  by Technotopia.com
  Copyright © 2012 Neil Smyth / Payload Media.
  http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ruby_Essentials
  both free online and paid (8.99) PDF or eBook editions

• “Ruby Programming” - Wikibook
  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language

• “The Bastards Book of Ruby”
  by Dan Nguyen, Stanford Univ. Computational Journalism Lab
  http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/

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( PRINTED )

• “Learn to Program, (2nd Edition)”
  by Chris Pine
  (expanded from the original tutorial)
  http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ltp2/learn-to-program-2nd-edition

• “The Ruby Programming Language”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.8, and updated for v 1.9 )
  By David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto (the inventor of Ruby)
  © “O’Reilly Media, Inc.”, Jan 25, 2008 - Computers - (English) 448 pages
  https://books.google.com/books?id=jcUbTcr5XWwC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

• “Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (2nd Edition)”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.8 )
  By Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
  Copyright © 2004,2005,The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
  https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby/programming-ruby

• “Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (3rd Edition)”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.9 )
  By Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
  Copyright © 2009, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC.
  https://pragprog.com/book/ruby3/programming-ruby (out-of -print)

• “Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (4th Edition)”
  ( Written for Ruby v 1.9, and updated for v 2.0 )
  By Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
  © The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC., June 2013 - (English) 863 pages
  https://pragprog.com/book/ruby4/programming-ruby-1-9-2-0

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~ SketchUp Specific ~

( DOWNLOADABLE )

• “Automatic SketchUp”
  by Matthew Scarpino, Eclipse Engineering LLC
  2010
  • from Google Drive
  • from Ruby Library Depot

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( PRINTED )

• “Construction Documents using SketchUp Pro & LayOut::
  Replace traditional CAD with a new generation of 3D software (SketchUp2BIM) (Volume 1)”
  by Mr. Paul James Lee
  © 2013
  http://www.amazon.com/Construction-Documents-using-SketchUp-LayOut/dp/1480099015
  (NOTE: this is not about Ruby SketchUp programming. TODO: Move to a general book list.)

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[DanRathbun]

TUTORIALS

(A list of tutorials for learning Ruby.)

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~ Ruby Generic ~

• “Learning Ruby”
  by Daniel Carrera, San Diego State University
  (online) http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/ruby/index.html
  (download tarball) http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/ruby/learning-ruby.tar.gz

• “Learn to Program, 1st Ed.”
  by Chris Pine
  © 2003-2016, Chris Pine
  (online) http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/

• “Ruby Study Notes”
  by Satish Talim
  (online) http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/tutorial.html

• “Ruby Tutorial”
  tutorialspoint.com
  http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/index.htm

• “Introduction to Ruby” - 2 sections, 10 pg. (sec. III is not done.)
  << “Learning Ruby” by Daniel Carrera, replaces ruby-lang’s “Introduction to Ruby” >>
  by ruby-lang.org
  http://ruby-doc.org/docs/Tutorial/

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~ SketchUp Specific ~

• Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial
  by Martin Rinehart
  http://www.martinrinehart.com/models/tutorial/

• Ruby Tutorials at SketchUcation Forums
  http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8767#p52665

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REFERENCE

(A list of technical references for Ruby.)

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~ Ruby Generic ~

• Ruby Keywords

• Ruby QuickRef
  by Ryan Davis
  http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html

• Ruby CookBook
  by Ryan Davis
  http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/Cookbook/

• Ruby-Doc Language Reference

  • Core Documentation
    http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/index.html

  • Standard Library
    www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0.0/index.html

  • Ruby Issue Tracking
    https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

  • Ruby Versioning Policy
    https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/ReleaseEngineering

• Management of Side-By-Side System Ruby Installs

  • uru (Unleash RUby)
    SIMPLE Multi-Platform Command line tool
    https://bitbucket.org/jonforums/uru

  • RVM (Ruby enVironment Manager)
    COMPLEX OSX, *nix Command line tool
    https://github.com/rvm/rvm#rvm

• RubyGems

  • User Guide
    http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/1
  • Manuals
    http://docs.rubygems.org/

• Documentation Generators

  • RDoc Documentation
    http://rdoc.rubyforge.org/

  • YARD

    • Features
      http://yardoc.org/features.html
    • Documentation
      http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/yard/file/README.md
    • Code Repository
      https://github.com/lsegal/yard
    • Customizing YARD Templates
      http://gnuu.org/2009/11/18/customizing-yard-templates/

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~ SketchUp Specific ~

• SketchUp Ruby API Cheatsheet
  by Alex Schreyer
  http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/sketchup-ruby-api-cheatsheet/

• SketchUp Ruby API Reference
  new: http://ruby.sketchup.com/
  old: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/index

• SketchUp Ruby API - Class Index
  new: http://ruby.sketchup.com/class_list.html
  old: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/classes

• SketchUp Ruby API - Method Index
  new: http://ruby.sketchup.com/method_list.html
  old: http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/methods

• SketchUp Ruby API - Class Diagram
  http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/diagram broken link!
  See: (GIF image here)

• SketchUp Sage Resources
  http://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/resources

• SketchUp Plugin Checklist
  http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2013/02/sketchup-plugin-checklist/

• Units - Dealing with Units in SketchUp
  http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2012/08/dealing-with-units-in-sketchup/

• PickHelper - Visual Guide
  by Thomas Thomassen
  http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/2013/01/pickhelper-a-visual-guide/

• WebDialogs - The Lost Manual
  by Thomas Thomassen
  https://github.com/thomthom/sketchup-webdialogs-the-lost-manual

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TEMPLATES

(A list of templates for programming SketchUp extensions and plugins.)

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• [Template] for Basic SketchUp Extension

• [Template] Multi-File, Multi-Class with SharedConstants Mixin

• [Template] Ruby Plugin main file

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NEWS & BLOGS

(Newsy or interesting happenings with Ruby and SketchUp.)

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~ Ruby Generic ~

• Ruby Lang News

• Practicing Ruby (Articles are listed in reverse order.)
  by Gregory T. Brown, author of “Ruby Best Practices”,
  and the upcoming “Programming Beyond Practices”.
  https://www.practicingruby.com/

• Ruby Inside
  By Peter Cooper, author of “Beginning Ruby: From Novice to Professional”
  http://www.rubyinside.com/

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~ SketchUp Ruby Specific ~

• SketchUp Developer Blog (Official)

• Procrastinator’s Revolt: Ruby API blog
  by Thomas Thomassen (@thomthom)
  http://www.thomthom.net/thoughts/category/sketchup/ruby-api/

• Herosu: SketchUp Ruby blog
  by Rafael Rivera (@RafaelRivera / aka renderiza at SketchUcation)
  https://www.herosu.com/blog/categories/sketchup

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~ SketchUp General ~

• SketchUpdate - Official SketchUp Blog

• SketchUpdate Newsletters (index)

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IDEAS

(Ideas for doing nifty things with Ruby and SketchUp.)

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• LanguageHandler class
  • Using format string parameter replacement with LanguageHandler

• Sketchup::PickHelper class

  • PickHelper - Visual Guide, by Thomas Thomassen

• UI::inputbox() module method

  • Inputbox prompt strings are clipped short without apparent reason
    A discussion of inputbox layout bugs and quirks.
  • Units - Dealing with Units in SketchUp, by Thomas Thomassen

• UI::WebDialog class

  • WebDialogs - The Lost Manual, by Thomas Thomassen

  • MSDN: Defining document compatibility

  • MSDN: How to Enable Standards Support

  • MSDN: Specifying legacy document modes

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