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Ruby - Useful Resources

The following resources contain additional information on Ruby. Use them to deepen your knowledge.

Official Ruby Resources

• Ruby Official Website: https://www.ruby-lang.org/ - The primary source for Ruby news, downloads, and links to documentation.
• Ruby Documentation: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/ or https://ruby-doc.org/ - Comprehensive documentation for Ruby versions and standard libraries.
• RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/ - The official repository for Ruby libraries (gems). Find, install, and publish gems here.
• Ruby Core API Documentation: https://ruby-doc.org/core/ - Detailed API docs for Ruby’s core classes and modules.
• Ruby Standard Library API Documentation: https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ - API docs for Ruby’s standard libraries.

Installation and Version Management

• RubyInstaller for Windows: https://rubyinstaller.org/ - A self-contained Windows installer for Ruby.
• RVM (Ruby Version Manager): https://rvm.io/ - Manage multiple Ruby installations on Unix-like systems.
• rbenv: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv - Another popular tool for managing multiple Ruby versions.

Community and Learning

• Ruby Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/ - A large online community for Ruby discussion and news.
• RubyFlow: https://www.rubyflow.com/ - A curated link log for the Ruby and Rails community.
• GitHub: https://github.com/ - Host to countless open-source Ruby projects and libraries. Search for ‘ruby’ to explore.
• Ruby Central: https://rubycentral.org/ - A non-profit organization supporting the Ruby community, known for organizing conferences like RubyConf and RailsConf.

Ruby on Rails (Web Framework)

• Ruby on Rails Official Website: https://rubyonrails.org/ - The main site for the popular web framework.
• Rails Guides: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/ - Excellent tutorials and guides for learning Rails.
• Rails API Documentation: https://api.rubyonrails.org/ - API documentation for Rails.
• RailsConf: https://railsconf.org/ - The largest official conference for Ruby on Rails.

XML/HTML Processing

• Nokogiri: https://nokogiri.org/ - A widely used, fast, and robust HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.
• REXML (Standard Library): Included with Ruby, REXML is a pure-Ruby XML processor. Documentation is part of the standard Ruby library docs.

Databases

• SQLite3 Gem: Search on RubyGems for sqlite3 for the Ruby interface to SQLite.
• PG Gem (PostgreSQL): Search on RubyGems for pg for the Ruby interface to PostgreSQL.
• MySQL2 Gem: Search on RubyGems for mysql2 for the Ruby interface to MySQL/MariaDB.
• MySQL Homepage: https://www.mysql.com/ - Official site for MySQL database.
• PostgreSQL Homepage: https://www.postgresql.org/ - Official site for PostgreSQL database.