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• A Joyful Gem

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/56614
  By Rick Wayne. Short positive review, with code samples. Full text, in an email; to see it on magazine website one must register. [Software Development]

• An Interview with the Creator of Ruby

  http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/29/ruby.html
  Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, discusses Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'. [O'Reilly Network]

• An Introduction to Ruby

  http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/10/25/ruby.html
  Explains that the world can use another language for the simple reason that Ruby makes programming fun again, and that's what counts. Introduction via examining high-level Ruby traits, and distinguishing traits. [O'Reilly Network]

• Interview with the Creator of Ruby

  http://slashdot.org/developers/01/12/01/0110233.shtml
  Forum comments and discussion related to Ruby and O'Reilly guide 'Ruby in a Nutshell'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]

• Making Waves in the Ruby World

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000085/
  Three Ruby projects stand out (JRuby, Mongrel, Ruport) not so much for development, but for communicating well, something many projects do less well. Linux Journal.

• Obie, Has It Been 9 Years Already?

  http://jroller.com/page/obie?entry=matz_roundtable_notes
  Matz Roundtable Notes from Friday night at RubyConf 2005, as questions and answers. [Obie Fernandez Weblog]

• Programming in Ruby

  http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/programming-in-ruby/184404436
  Take the pure object orientation of Smalltalk, remove the quirky syntax and reliance on a workspace. Add the convenience and power of Perl, but without the special cases and magic conversions. Give it a clean syntax based partly on Eiffel, add a few concepts from Scheme, CLU, Sather, Common Lisp. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]

• Programming in the Ruby Language

  http://slashdot.org/developers/01/08/11/2211254.shtml
  Forum comments and discussion related to July IBM developerWorks Ruby article, with the usual diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]

• Programming Ruby

  http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/25/1624239
  Forum comments and discussion on Ruby and the book 'Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide'; diverse opinions, many positive remarks. [Slashdot.org]

• Ruby Creator Y. Matsumoto

  http://www.stephenibaraki.com/rubycreater122101.htm
  Interview with Matz, explains motives and early history, job duties, 10 top tips for those going into computing, focus on the human. [CIPS Connections]

• Ruby-lang.org Opens Online!

  http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-10-29-004-04-NW
  Announcement of Ruby-lang domain and website. [Linux Today]

• Ruby: A Gem of a Language

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/jul07/pollice/
  First of 4-part series introduces Ruby programming, begins with variables, quotes, arrays, objects, methods. Later parts treat more advanced topics. By Joshua Drake, author of Linux books and co-founder of Command Prompt, Inc. [IBM developerWorks]

• Ruby: Productive Programming Language

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5915
  Short positive overview, explains Ruby by comparing with some other languages; focus on production; code samples, forum with many comments. [Linux Journal]

• The Ruby Programming Language

  http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=18225&redir=1
  Very clear introductory article by Ruby creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. [InformIT]

• Using MySQL with Ruby

  http://www.kitebird.com/articles/
  By Paul DuBois. Two parts: Using the Ruby MySQL Module, Using the Ruby DBI Module. HTML, PDF; online, downloads (tar, zip). [Kitebird.com]

• Using the Ruby MySQL Module

  http://www.kitebird.com/articles/ruby-mysql.html
  Article describes how to install the Tomita Masahiro's MySQL module and use it to write MySQL-based Ruby scripts. By Paul DuBois.

• Why Not Ruby?

  https://slashdot.org/story/01/07/08/1955209/why-not-ruby
  Forum comments and discussion, with wide diversity of opinion, much of it positive. [Slashdot.org]

• Why You Might Want to Try Ruby

  http://freecode.com/articles/why-you-might-want-to-try-ruby
  Editorial with description and code; resulting forum comments and discussion of mostly positive opinion. [freshmeat.net]

• Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto: Ruby Design Principles

  http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail1638.html
  What makes a good programming language? It helps human thoughts, helps us think better, and makes us better programmers. Interview with brief summary, MP3 download. IT Conversations.

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