Essential Ruby

Overview

Ruby is an easy-to-learn, dynamic, object-oriented programming language with dynamic typing and automatic memory management. This refcard provides a quick reference to language elements and many important API functions for quick lookup.

Features include Simple Ruby Examples, IRB, RubyGems, Ruby Language Reference Tables, Hot Tips and More.

About the Author

Melchior Brislinger is currently a student of Visual Communication at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. He uses Ruby and other programming languages and tools to explore the possibilities of combining art, design and technology.

Peter Cooper is a digital “jack of all trades” based in the north of England. He is author of Beginning Ruby—published by Apress— creator of numerous Web sites and technologies, a professional blogger who runs Ruby Inside—the most popular blog for Ruby and Rails developers—and an entrepreneur who sold two startups in 2007.

Publications
Beginning Ruby, Apress

Projects
Ruby Inside—http://www.rubyinside.com/
Ruby Flow—http://www.rubyflow.com/
Rails Inside—http://www.railsinside.com/
SwitchPipe—http://switchpipe.org/

Blog
http://www.peterc.org/
http://twitter.com/peterc/

Homepage
http://www.petercooper.co.uk/