Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Technorati: In top 50,000

Today, the Learning Ruby site was ranked 48,577 by Technorati. This is good news especially since the site's been 'live' for only a month now.

Learning Ruby

Rank 48,577 means that the number of blogs, plus one, that have more than 58 distinct blogs linking to them.
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Monday, October 16, 2006

Socket Programming in Ruby

I have just published an article that explains how one can do Socket Programming in Ruby.

I had been searching the internet for some information on Socket Programming in Ruby, but had not been successful. The article is a result of that. Do send me your feedback on how you found the article. Was it useful to you? I look forward to your inputs.
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The Ruby Edge

The Ruby Edge is a new community driven web site for Ruby and Ruby On Rails news, tips, tricks, tutorials, books, and jobs. It's a Digg
style site with user voting, commenting, and categorization of user submissions.

Please stop by and share your Ruby/Rails knowledge.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Ruby Certification

The JavaBlackBelt Certification Community has added a Ruby - Basic Certification exam. recently. The objective of this certfication is:

To test knowledge of the language core syntax and OO concepts. You should understand that Ruby is a genuine object-oriented language and everything it manipulates with is objects. No specific API knowledge is required. Only the most frequently used built-in classes and methods are covered. The knowledge of any external libraries is not necessary. The given exam covers Ruby 1.8.x features and syntax.

After completing the free, web-based course Learning Ruby, it would be beneficial for you to give this test. All the best.
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Free Study Notes on Ruby

I have created a small pdf version of my Ruby study notes. This can be downloaded from here. I am hopeful that it would be useful for students making a shift to Ruby / Rails and as always feedback and corrections are welcome in the comments.

The entire Learning Ruby courseware is available online here.

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