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title: Introducing the Ruby Compendium
content-type: article
subtitle: An Essential Guide to the Ruby Ecosystem
timestamp: 1295802135
tags: ruby-compendium|books|ruby
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<p>Learning a programming language can be hard and time consuming. You normally have to go through a bunch of tutorials, ask questions, read books&#8230; Ruby is no exception: there are plenty of resources out there about it, but it is often hard to find what you&#8217;re looking for. So, as a weekend project, I decided to create a <em>Ruby Compendium</em>, a short book about the Ruby Ecosystem.</p>
<p>I guarantee that you <em>will not</em> be able to code in Ruby after reading this book. Yes, you read it right, this book is not about coding, it&#8217;s about learning what&#8217;s out there for you that can help you to learn how to program in Ruby. Information on Ruby implementations, versions, web sites, books, podcasts, a handful of Ruby gems to solve common problems&#8230; it&#8217;s all in there.</p>

<p>The <em>Ruby Compendium</em> is available free of charge, under the terms of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</a>, and you can help improving it! It was written using my very own <a href="http://www.h3rald.com/glyph">Glyph Framework</a>, and the entire source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/h3rald/ruby-compendium">GitHub</a>, for anyone to fork.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:20px; auto;font-size: 18px; font-weight:bold;"><a href="https://github.com/downloads/h3rald/ruby-compendium/ruby-compendium.pdf">Download (<span class="caps">PDF</span>)</a></div>

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