The original author of this book is out of touch for years. I've decided to keep hosting it. The latest version can be viewed at readruby.io.
I've modified the code to make it work with ruby 2.0.0. To preview it locally:
- Run
rake clean html browse
Read Ruby is a book I’m writing about Ruby 1.9.2. It’s in a very rough state, but the latest version can always be viewed at ruby.runpaint.org.
Text and images are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Suggestions and issue reports are welcomed via the Issue Tracker.
Fork the GitHub repository, make commits and do pull requests.
To generate the book, you'll need:
- Ruby 1.9.2 (or 1.9 trunk), which can be installed via rvm.
xsltproc
(Available in an eponymous package on Debian and her derivatives).- The gems
coderay
,h5-min
,nokogiri
,sinatra
, andw3c_validators
. If you have thebundler
gem installed, you can install the lot by executingbundle install
in the repository root. - To validate the DocBook sources you'll need
xmllint
(packaged aslibxml2-utils
on Debian et al.) and/oroNVDL
. (Validation will be skipped if these programs aren’t installed). gzip
for compressing HTML/CSS/JS. Installed by default on most systems.
To preview it locally:
- Run
rake browse
to start the bundled web server - Navigate to
http://localhost:4567/