Please share the link to ONE Ruby tutorial that you think deserves the title. If you have information about the intended target audience's skills, please include it in your answer as well. This will help readers choose an appropriate tutorial.
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For beginners, it is Try Ruby! (in your browser)... and by leaps and bounds, i think.
Steve Paulo
2008-09-23 22:45:10
Every language should have something similar. Everyone who I have sent there to check it out has been extremely impressed and is always blown away.
mwilliams
2008-10-05 01:16:59
This link appears to be broken now.
cletus
2010-04-17 03:18:14
http://tryruby.org/
k00k
2010-05-13 11:45:48
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There's always the poignant guide, although not recommended if you're in a hurry and/or hate cartoon foxes.
Richard Franks
2008-09-23 22:47:47
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It's a bit outdated now, but the two Peepcode Rails episodes are very good, then I would recommend watching though some of the Railscasts tutorials to "update yourself" (they are very good, and cover smaller concepts, or plugins etc, so there are new ones every week or two)
dbr
2008-09-23 23:10:43
Please note, that I was actually looking for general Ruby resources, not specifically Ruby on Rails. This answer is thus a bit off-topic, although many know Ruby only on Rails ;)
Martin Klinke
2008-09-23 23:36:24
..err, oops.. Well, the Peepcode RoR videos does have a very good few-chapters on Ruby itself (which won't be nearly as outdated as the Rails specific stuff)
dbr
2008-09-25 13:34:38
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Here is another one: Learn to Program! There is an online version of the 2004 book available.
nutario
2008-09-24 12:41:33
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I taught myself from the pickaxe book - the one online is the first edition but free, and physical copies are typically in bookstores whenever I look. The table of contents looks daunting, but running through the first few chapters gives you a pretty good overview of the language. The rest is either special case (Ruby and Tk, for example) or reference.
Atiaxi
2008-09-27 20:25:07