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I’m sure everyone by now has seen those oh-so-Web 2.0 star rating features on hundreds of websites. Well I needed to implement one for a site I’m working on and I couldn’t find a complete example anywhere (not in RoR). So here it is. A complete Rails based Ajax and CSS star ratings sytem with some RJS thrown in for good measure.

The ruby-doc.org Ruby documentation project is an effort by the Ruby community to provide complete and accurate documentation for the Ruby programming language.

So, we are a couple of Microsoft developers (MCSD's) that have each been working with Microsoft technologies (most recently C#, Windows Forms, ASP.NET, XML Web Services, you know) for a decade. A couple of months ago, just for fun, we decided to give Ruby On Rails a try, on a couple of side projects. (After all, what self-respecting software developer doesn't have side projects?) We hope you'll find this helpful, and comments, suggestions, and you own articles are always welcome!

2005 was assuredly a huge year for the Rails development team - the 1.0 milestone was hit, and with it came one of the most innovative development tools available, Locomotive. I've been using Locomotive in tandem with Subversion and MySQL for the past couple of weeks while working on some new projects which are now nearing completion - giving me some free time to write about my experiences using these tools, and how you can utilise them in your own development environment.

SQL Relay is a persistent database connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix and Linux supporting ODBC, Oracle, MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Interbase, Lago, SQLite and MS Access (minimally) with APIs for C, C++, Perl, Perl-DBI, Python, Python-DB, Zope, PHP, Ruby, Ruby-DBI, Java and TCL, drop-in replacement libraries for MySQL and PostgreSQL clients, command line clients, a GUI configuration tool and extensive documentation. The APIs support advanced database operations such as bind variables, multi-row fetches, client-side result set caching and suspended transactions. It is ideal for speeding up database-driven web-based applications, accessing databases from unsupported platforms, migrating between databases, distributing access to replicated databases and throttling database access.

What Ruby lacks more than anything is good starting points for getting into the language. There's a bunch of absolutely excellent resources out there, though. I've attempted to summarize the best of them by category.

Ruby Quiz is a weekly programming challenge for Ruby programmers in the spirit of the Perl Quiz of the Week. A new Ruby Quiz is sent to the Ruby Talk mailing list each Friday. (Watch for the [QUIZ] subject identifier.) After a 48 hour no-spoiler period has passed, everyone is invited to contribute solutions and/or discussion back to the list. The following Thursday a Summary will be sent to the list, discussing the quiz, solutions and discussion. The next day, the cycle begins again.

For Ruby developers, YAML is a natural fit for object serialization and general data storage. Really, it's quite fantastic. Spreads right on your Rubyware like butter on bread! The possible uses for YAML are innumerable. Configuration files, custom internet protocols, documentation, the list goes on and on. Also, with YAML readers popping up for other languages (see YAML.pm and others), you can pass data easily to colleagues in distant lands, swamped in their archaic languages.

Following the Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly) spirit, the PLEAC Project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages

Ruby Code & Style -- new Ruby magazine hosted by Artima.com

all the programming frameworks for Semantic Web : C - Haskell - Java - JavaScript - Common Lisp - .Net/Mono - Perl - PHP - Pike - Prolog - Python - Ruby - Proprietary Languages

Ruby newbie view on the web development using Ruby on Rails

Blog en francais sur Ruby

railsfrance.org - communauté francophone des utilisateurs de Ruby on Rails

Source : http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/beginner-fr/xhtml/ - Auteur : Daniel Carrera - Traduction : Laurent Sansonetti

Traduction du site why's (poignant) guide to ruby

Ce site est consacré à l’apprentissage de Ruby le langage de programmation pas le rubik’s cube ;-) Plus sérieusement, j’avais besoin de connaître un autre langage que Java notamment pour faire de petits programmes rapidement pour manipuler des chaînes de caractères et du texte. * J’ai pensé à Perl mais la synthaxe devient vite complexe. * J’ai hésiter entre Python et Ruby, Ruby étant plus récent j’ai opté pour celui-là ! (et voilà) Ce blog est donc mon évolution au jour le jour dans le monde solitaire des mines de ruby :-) Vous trouverez des exemples de codes avec des explications.

Document PDF - Traduction de Jean-Pierre ANGHEL - Si vous voulez programmer un ordinateur, vous devez "parler" dans une langue que votre machine comprendra : un langage de programmation. Il existe de nombreux langages de ce type, et certains sont même excellents. Dans ce tutoriel j’ai choisi d’utiliser mon langage de programmation favori, Ruby.

Copyright © 2003 Daniel Carrera , Laurent Sansonetti (traduction française) http://www.ruby-doc.org/downloads/beginner-fr-0.1.tgz Ce tutoriel va vous permettre de vous familiariser avec le language Ruby. Il est avant tout destiné aux débutants. Ces derniers pourront, sans posséder aucune connaissance au préalable, se servir de ce tutoriel comme tremplin pour leur long apprentissage du meilleur langage de programmation du monde!