Ruby Projects

• acoc, a program for colouring the output of any program.
• nldict, a Dutch dictionary program.
• rit, the Ruby IMAP tool.
• Ruby/Amazon, a Ruby interface to v3 of the Amazon Web Services API. This library has been succeeded by Ruby/AWS.
• Ruby/AWS, a Ruby interface to v4 of the Amazon Web Services API. This library is the successor to Ruby/Amazon.
• Ruby/CorporateTime, a Ruby interface to Oracle's Calendar application.
• Ruby/DICT, a DICT protocol library and client
• Ruby/Finance, access to financial information, including currency conversion and stock quotes.
• Ruby/Google, a Ruby interface to the Google Web API.
• Ruby/LDAP, the popular Ruby library for interacting with LDAP servers. There is now extensive RDoc documentation available for the project.
• Ruby/Password, a Ruby library for working with passwords.
• Ruby/XMLTV, a TV programme schedule grabber for UPC's television network in The Netherlands.
• Ruby on the Sharp Zaurus (out of date, but still here).
• xmms2pl, a program for connecting to XMMS and exporting playlists and their files. I use this for syncing with my iRiver iHP-140 multi-codec jukebox.
• xmmsgrep, a program for connecting to XMMS and looking for regular expressions in song titles and artist names.

Ruby Resources

Recommended Articles

• The introductory article on Freshmeat, that got me started all those years ago.

Recommended Tutorials

• The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide
• Marc Slagell's excellent tutorial
• Ruby In Twenty Minutes

Recommended Books

Standard Resources

• The official site
• Ruby Central
• The Ruby Garden
• The Ruby FAQ

Advocacy

• 37 reasons to love Ruby
• An interesting and intelligent comparison of Python and Ruby
• Some discussion of linguistic simplicity, containing comparisons between Python and Ruby