ruby.md

Ruby

General

• Ruby - Parameters by reference or by value?
• The Rubyist's Guide to Environment Variables

Gem Lists

• The Ruby Toolbox
• Awesome Ruby

Rake Tasks

• Using the Rake Build Language - Martin Fowler
• Basic Rake video - Jim Weirich (the creator and maintainer of rake)
• Power Rake video - Jim Weirich (the creator and maintainer of rake)

Metaprogramming

• Metaprogramming All The Way Down

Testing

• What happens with RSpec runs

Subprocesses, Forks, Threads, and the IPC

• Ruby Concurrency and Parallelism: A Practical Tutorial
• Introduction to IPC in Ruby
• Forking and IPC in Ruby (two part series)
• Running a child process in Ruby (properly)
• Stripe's Subprocess library
• Thread Pool - A Ruby Antihero

Handling STDIN, STDOUT, and Pseudoterminals

• Capturing stdout & stderr from shell commands via Ruby
• Pseudoterminals (wiki)
• PTY ruby doc
• Continuously read from STDOUT of external process in Ruby
• Open3 standard lib gem
• IO standard lib gem

Scripting

• Writing Ruby Scripts That Respect Pipelines
• Ruby's ARGF

Paradigms & Models

• The Object Model in Ruby: Why Object Oriented Programming?
• Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring

Garbage Collection

• Visualizing Garbage Collection in Ruby and Python