• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
  Well written guide – very light hearted and not overly technical. Makes it FUN to learn.
  (tags: ruby rails RoR howto guide)
• Ruby Home Page
  (tags: ruby rails RoR news)
• Ruby Central
  Didn’t dig too much, but it looks like there is a decent linsk section. Not sure how up to date it is yet.
  (tags: ruby rails RoR links articles guide book)
• Ruby Code & Style
  Magazine from Artima
  (tags: Artima ruby rails RoR magazine)
• Ruby on Rails – Trac
  Source Code for RoR
  (tags: Ruby rails RoR source svn)
• Ruby on Rails
  Wiki for RoR
  (tags: Ruby Rails RoR Wiki)
• Seattle.rb: Seattle Ruby Brigade
  Seattle Ruby Group
  (tags: Ruby Rails RoR Seattle Meetup UserGroup)
• Rubyholic.com v. 1.1
  Ruby groups around the world
  (tags: ruby rails RoR usergroup meetup)
• Welcome! [Ruby-Doc.org: Documenting the Ruby Language]
  Documentation and language References
  (tags: ruby documentation docs reference)
• QuirksMode
  …contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities.
  (tags: css javascript quirks quirksmode browser)
• RoR
  THE Ruby on Rails group.
  (tags: ruby rails RoR download)
• Ruby StdLib Docs
  Standard library Documentation
  (tags: ruby standard doc)
• Ruby Core Docs
  Core Language Documentation
  (tags: ruby core documentation)

If I found out one thing at MindCamp this weekend, it was the sheer power and elegance of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.  The vast amount of functioanlity that is possible with such minimal coding absolutely blew my mind.

I’d been hearing about it peripherally for 6-9 months or so due to the whole Web 2.0 explosion. About 5 months ago I was at a PHP meetup which just happens to share its space with the Seattle Ruby Brigade.  One guy came over and many feathers were ruffled.  I was even more intrigued.  Since then I’d heard more and more about its power.  Now, this weekend, I saw some .rb source code for several projects and had to rub my jaw after picking it up off the ground.

So, what’s next?  Learning it of course!  I already have MySQL and Apache installed on my Powerbook (the new builds, custom buiilt – not the preinstalled ones).  I also have PHP built, but that doesn’t matter much for this learning exercise.

One of the first steps I go through when learning something new is lining up my resources.  In about 30 minutes, you’ll see today’s del.icio.us bookmarks of mine get posted to my blog by del.icio.us’ auto poster.  I have source code locations, download points, mailing lists, links, user groups, documentation, and more.

I’ll post up more entries as I go through the next steps of picking a project, designing it, coding it, etc. I’ll let you know what I like about Ruby, what is hard, what is easy.