Ruby: How to bring back the joy of programming

Ruby is a nice scripting language similar to Perl but cleaner and fully object-orientated.

Find here a pointer to the main site about Ruby. Ruby Central also has a lots of data about Ruby.

You can find here a link to an online copy of the book « Programming Ruby », by Andrew Hunt & Dave Thomas.

Current stable version is 1.8.6-p110. Current development version (just released) is 1.9.0.

Alongside with Ruby, I’ve discovered the joys of a very neat and nicely designed web application framework called Ruby on Rails. I hope to write with it some of the applications I always wanted to have for a long time. There are quite a number of similar framework now like Nitro, Merb and others.

Two years ago, a non-profit association (Association loi de 1901 in French) was established in France to help further spread Ruby usage and love. I’m now part of the board (Conseil d’administration or CA in French). The website is there. If you are a French Ruby fan, please come and see us. We will be present at the Solutions Linux exhibit between Jan. 29th and 31st, 2008 in La Defense near Paris.