Ruby is “an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming” — what does this mean?
interpreted scripting language:
- ability to make operating system calls directly
- powerful string operations and regular expressions
- immediate feedback during development
quick and easy:
- variable declarations are unnecessary
- variables are not typed
- syntax is simple and consistent
- memory management is automatic
object oriented programming:
- everything is an object
- classes, methods, inheritance, etc.
- singleton methods
- “mixin” functionality by module
- iterators and closures
also:
- multiple precision integers
- convenient exception processing
- dynamic loading
- threading support
If you are unfamiliar with some of the concepts above, read on, and don’t worry. The mantra of the ruby language is quick and easy.
via http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/index.html
I just checked http://del.icio.us/popular/ and found that a link http://sitekreator.com/satishtalim/index.html named Learning Ruby is on top! After visiting it, I came to know that it is a very nice Ruby tuorial by Mr. Satish Talim Sir. Satish Talim Sir also maintains PuneRuby blog. I regularly check it. Do visit Learning Ruby site!
While chatting with Premshree few days ago, he told me that he has a good news. But he said that he will probably blog about it on his journal. The good news is that Yahoo! launched its new section under http://developer.yahoo.com (probably by Premshree). Following is the post by Premshree on Yahoo Developer Network website
Ruby Developer Center Launches
Ruby is a beautiful language to write code in, and, thanks to Ruby on Rails, it’s being used quite a lot in web applications. If you’re just getting started with Ruby, be sure to check out our useful links. If you’re already familiar with the language and want to jump right in with Yahoo!’s web services, we’ve got a series of HOWTOs just for you.
We’ve also created a new Yahoo! Group: ydn-ruby. Join up and get help, or discuss your favorite API tricks and techniques.
Finally, if you’ve built a Ruby-powered application, please consider uploading it to the Applications Gallery. We love to hear about your hacks!
Premshree Pillai
Posted: 21 September, 2006
As Yahoo have started it, I think I am going to see many biggies start using Ruby as Ruby is the very productive programming language.
Check out this link http://esakal.com/esakal/09222006/1B60E67974.htm. Somebody wrote an article on Google Blog in Sakal Newspaper, Pune. In that he has mentioned about Google Total. But article is in Marathi. ;(
I am happy because my small creation is getting noticed by media!
I am great fan of del.icio.us. My current blog theme is inspired by del.icio.us. I daily check del.icio.us for popular links on net. I just checked editor tag under popular filter in del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/popular/editor. You will definitely get nice things on this link. I also use writely as my online text editor.
I announced earlier that I will blog actively at http://anilw.info/blog/ which was setup using typo! I liked typo too much. But it was relatively too slow. My friend Pratik suggested me to start using mephisto. Mephisto is a blogging/content management software created by Rick Olson(technoweenie) of the Ruby On Rails Core team and Justin Palmer. I am in love with Rick’s apps. I like Beast. I like Rails Pastie. I like mephisto. I had some conversation with Rick via #mephisto channel on IRC. He is very helpful and guided me to setup my mephisto on my server. I got this server from Pratik. I refered Pratik’s tip to install mephisto on shared hosting environment. But in vain, it required a different trick to setup mephisto on my server. I hope I will setup mephisto on server in couple of days. I will announce it on blog. 
