If you don’t know how something is called (e.g. **) in Ruby, check this project: What do you call this in Ruby?.
Recommend ruby-install and chruby. What’s .ruby-version?
Stable versions across all implementations, please check Ruby Versions. Currently you should use Ruby 2.6+ (2021 July 22, Ruby 2.5 is EOL).
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Idiosyncratic Ruby - 75+ posts of Ruby’s Specialities
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Master Enumerable and this post
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The _why documentary
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Rubular to tinker RegExps
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strftimer - because who can remember?
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Ruby API documentations
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The Ruby Bibliography — List of academic research papers and theses about Ruby. Compile and curate by Chris Seaton.
But Hey! I am a book person.
Strongly recommend Polished Ruby Programming published in 2021 by Jeremy Evans for anyone who passed the introductory stage.
A free one to get started, hands on: Learn Ruby the Hard Way.
What really got me Ah, I understood a little bit Ruby now, is "Confident Ruby" by Avdi Grimm. If you want to understand deeper about Ruby at lower level: Ruby Under a Microscope.
Writing better code in Ruby: Principles of Object Oriented Design in Ruby and 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz.
Read their blog post. Watch their Conference presentation (search on YouTube or Ruby Video)
- Aaron Patterson — Legendary tenderlove, GC, Ruby & Rails Commiter
- Avdi Grimm — RubyTapas, he also wrote many Ruby books.
- Chris Seaton — Works on TruffleRuby and improving CRuby with his compiler knowledge
- Hongli Lai — Author of Phusion, Passenger, Ruby Memory
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Michel Martens — Simplicity-driven developer
- mote Template Engine in just 42 LOC
- syro A simple router for web applications
- micromachine Minimal Finite State Machine
- Mike Perham — Author of Sidekiq - Twitter
- Nate Berkopec — Rails performance posts on Speedshop Blog (Newsletter), Puma
- Matthew Draper — Rails Core Team, ActiveRecord, Threads, ActionCable
- Ryan Davis — Many ruby infrastructures are maintained solely by him
- Richard Schneems — Sprockets, Rack, Puma, Heroku
- Sam Saffron - Benchmarking, performance
- Samuel Williams Concurrency, Async I/O, Fibers
- Sandi Metz — HOWTO write great Ruby code
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Andrew Kane — He wrote many great articles on Ruby on Rails & Ruby.
- ankane/production_rails - Best practices for running Rails in production
- ankane/secure_rails - Rails Security Best Practices
- ankane/search_guide - Best Search practices for developers and code to implement them.
- ankane/the-ultimate-guide-to-ruby-timeouts - Everything you need to know about Timeout in Ruby
- ankane/shorts - Short, random tutorials and posts
- Piotr Szotkowski
- Jeremy Evans — Ruby Committer, Lead developer for Sequel and Roda
- Janko — Author of Shrine (File Upload), Ruby off Rails evangelist
- Luca Guidi — Author of Hanami
- Ryuta Kamizono — Rails Core Team
- Colby Swandale — Author of ruby api, ex-bundler maintainer
- Jim Weirich — author of Rake, inspirations for many people
- Victor Shepelev — Lots of useful Ruby blogposts
Find more folks: https://github.com/trending/developers/ruby?since=monthly
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Thoughtbot's blog: Giant Robots
They have moved toward Elixir and Elm, but still a lot of gems there.
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Concise easy to consume posts about new features of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
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The Pug Automatic by Henrik Nyh
Useful techniques, tricks regarding Ruby and Rails.
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MONKEY & CROW by Adam Sanderson
Some deep articles about Ruby Standard Library, Ruby language and Rails.
He writes so many deep dive posts of Ruby -
On the Edge of Ruby by Benoit Daloze
Here is common recommended choice of certain things I learned from talking to people, my experience, etc.
Why you have to pick a good library, gem. Because once your application grew, some libraries have things that they are not good at for your particular edge cases and it's very expensive or a lot of effort to change. These libraries are validated and flexible to handle real-world challenges.
Nowadays I tried to choose boring ones an minimal production (standard library, what big company is using).
- Background job: Sidekiq (A case study)
- File Uploads: shrine with image_processing
- Making Requests: HTTPX gem, HTTP gem
- Markdown: CommonMarker with
HTML::Pipeline - Emoji: Gemoji and Twemoji (this blog)
- Concurrency Tools: Concurrent Ruby
- Async I/O: https://github.com/socketry
- Time Calculations: Monotonic Time
- CLI apps: tty
- Learn how to configure all libs’s Timeout
- Nokogiri for HTML, XML parsing
- Parser and AST gem
- Scraping: Kimurai Scraping Framework
- Others: See what is trending on GitHub.
- I am a puts debuggerer by Tenderlove
- Processing large CSV files with Ruby
- 10 tips for debugging on production
- IO in Ruby
Follow @RubyInside / Ruby Weekly to read more like this.
But Hey! I want to read some real Code.
See Code Reading.
See Companies using Ruby.
Double quote: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/38841