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24 alternatives to My free Ruby book (CC license)

Contribute to ro31337/rubyisforfun development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My free Ruby book (CC license) launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1MF
   My free Ruby book PDF (CC license)▲5

   The source is available right here https://github.com/ro31337/rubyisforfun

   2022 · s3.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Rb – Turns Ruby into a command line utility▲232

   Turns Ruby into a versatile command line utility. Contribute to thisredone/rb development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Hello Ruby▲62

   Adventures in coding

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   I open sourced my eBook on upgrading to Rails 3▲44

   Open source version of the Rails Upgrade Handbook. Contribute to jm/rails_upgrade_guide development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   "Programming is for Anyone"▲105

   A Ruby programming tutorial for journalists, researchers, investigators, scientists, analysts and anyone else in the business of finding information and making it useful and visible. Programming experience not required, but provided.

   2011 · ruby.bastardsbook.com · its alternatives →

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   A tool to build Ruby gems with less ends▲6

   To make anything from macros. Contribute to ch1c0t/bgem development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Cron for GitHub▲5

   Contribute to packsaddle/ruby-cron_for_github-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Claude Code SDK for Ruby▲5

   Claude Code SDK for Ruby. Contribute to schappim/claude-code-sdk-ruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Clean Code concepts adapted for Ruby▲8

   🛁 Clean Code concepts adapted for Ruby. Contribute to uohzxela/clean-code-ruby development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Developing with Vagrant▲61

    Use Vagrant for Rails development.

    2016 · efficientrailsdevops.com · its alternatives →

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    RubyPilot – Ruby/Rails resources aggregator▲26

    rubypilot.com is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.

    2024 · rubypilot.com · its alternatives →

12. 12F0
    FaaStRuby 0.2 released – feedback appreciated▲25

    Hey all, I just put out a new release. Would you spare a couple minutes to try and give some feedback? If you already have the gem installed, you will have to update it: gem update faastruby Tutorial => https://faastruby.io/tutorial.html Top 3 Highlights - No more fiddling with git. - Functions are packaged, deployed and managed individually. - TESTS! Functions can have tests and they can be configured to run before each deploy, aborting if it fails. Thanks in advance!

    2018 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Learn how to GitHub by contributing code in a fun simulation project▲25

    [STILL ACTIVE] Learn the GitHub workflow by contributing code in a fun simulation project - danthareja/contribute-to-open-source

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Buttercoin trade engine▲7

    Buttercoin Trade Engine. Contribute to buttercoin/engine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    GitHub▲12

    Pyali786/tutorial-py

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    A/B Testing for Rails▲7

    A/B testing for Rails. Contribute to ankane/field_test development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Ruby Is For Fun▲5

    New fun book about Ruby programming language

    2020 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Collection of resources/links I learn things from▲5

    @rsapkf's wiki. [Merged into rsapkf/www]. Contribute to rspk1/42 development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a small ePub reader in Clojure▲7

    Contribute to netb258/clj-pub development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    I made a GitHub Flavored Markdown API▲12

    tl;dr: My first Ruby project: https://github.com/symkat/GFM-Service Something I have wanted for a long time, has been to use GitHub Flavored Markdown in projects. Since those projects haven't been Ruby, using the awesome libraries GitHub's released has been a non-started. Now, running this and using HTTP and JSON from any language lets me use GitHub Flavored Markdown in my projects.

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimalistic “Fork Me on GitHub.”▲9

    Minimalistic "Fork me on GitHub". Contribute to muhammadmuzzammil1998/OctoCSS development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GFun – Lisp 4 Go▲8

    Lisp 4 Go. Contribute to codr7/gfun development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    learn Ruby The Hard Way▲2

    A book about learning Ruby & coding in general

    2016 · learnrubythehardway.org · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Developing Rails API Applications▲9

    Learn to develop APIs using Rails 5

    2017 · its alternatives →

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