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### Getting Started
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[Official FAQ](/en/documentation/faq/)
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: The official frequently asked questions.
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[Ruby Koans][2]
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: The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn
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Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and
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some common functions and libraries. We also teach you culture.
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[Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby][5]
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: An unconventional but interesting book that will teach you Ruby
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through stories, wit, and comics. Originally created by *why the lucky
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stiff*, this guide remains a classic for Ruby learners.
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[Ruby Essentials][7]
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: A free on-line book designed to provide a concise
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and easy to follow guide to learning Ruby.
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[Try Ruby][1]
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: You can try Ruby right in your browser.
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[Learn to Program][8]
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: A wonderful little tutorial by Chris Pine for programming newbies. If
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you don’t know how to program, start here.
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[Learn Ruby the Hard Way][38]
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: A very good set of exercises with explanations that guide you from
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the absolute basics of Ruby all the way to OOP and web development.
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[Ruby in Twenty Minutes][rubyin20]
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: A small Ruby tutorial that should take no more than 20 minutes to
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complete.
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### Manuals
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[The Odin Project][odin]
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: An open source full stack curriculum
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[Programming Ruby][9]
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: The seminal work on Ruby in English, this first edition of the
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[Pragmatic Programmers’ book][10] is available for free online.
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[excercism][exercism]
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: 120 exercises with automatic analysis and personal mentoring.
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[The Ruby Programming Wikibook][12]
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: A free online manual with beginner and intermediate content plus a
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thorough language reference.
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[Codecademy][codecademy]
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: Online code bootcamp with a variety of topics. Freeish.
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### Manuals / Books
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#### Beginner
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[Programming Ruby 3.3][pickaxe]
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: The seminal work on Ruby in English. Recently updated to Ruby 3.3.
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[The Well-Grounded Rubyist][grounded]
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: A tutorial that begins with your first Ruby program and takes you all the way to sophisticated topics like reflection, threading, and recursion.
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#### Intermediate
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[Practical OOD in Ruby (POODR)][poodr]
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: A programmer's tale about how to write object-oriented code.
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#### Expert
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[Metaprogramming][meta]
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: Explains metaprogramming in a down-to-earth style.
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[Ruby Under a Microscope (RUM)][microscope]
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: An illustrated guide to Ruby internals.
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### Reference Documentation
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[Official API Documentation][docs-rlo-en]
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[Official API Documentation][docs-rlo-en] [(JP)][docs-rlo-jp]
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: The official Ruby language documentation for different versions including
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[Ruby C API Reference][extensions]
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[Ruby C API Reference][extensions] [(JP)][extensions-jp]
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: The official introduction to Ruby's C API.
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[RubyAPI.org][rubyapi-org]
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: Easily find and browse Ruby classes, modules, and methods.
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[ruby-doc.org][39]
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: Online API documentation
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[DevDocs.io][40]
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: Online API documentation
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[Ruby QuickRef][42]
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: The Ruby quick reference
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[rubyreferences][43]
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: A full language reference + detailed language changelog. Fantastic.
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### Style Guides
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[rubystyle.guide][44]
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: RuboCop's Ruby style guide
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[RuboCop][45]
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: Automated enforcement of their style guide.
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[Shopify][46]
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: Shopify's Ruby style guide
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[GitLab][47]
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: Gitlab's Ruby style guide
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[Airbnb][48]
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: Airbnb's Ruby style guide
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[w3resource][49]
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: W3's Ruby style guide
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# Tools
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[IRB][50]
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: The interactive Ruby Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL)
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[Pry][51]
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: An alternative Ruby REPL
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[Rake][52]
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: A make-like build utility for Ruby.
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[RI][53]
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: (Ruby Information) is the Ruby command-line utility that gives fast and easy on-line access to Ruby documentation.
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[RBS][54]
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: Type Signature for Ruby
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[TypeProf][55]
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: An experimental type-level Ruby interpreter for testing and understanding Ruby code.
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[Steep][56]
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: Static type checker for Ruby.
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Here is a list of popular tools used by Rubyists:
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* Linux and cross-platform tools:
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* [Aptana Studio][19]
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* [Atom][atom]
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* [Emacs][20] with [Ruby mode][21] and [Rsense][22]
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* [Eric][eric]
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* [Geany][23]
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* [gedit][24]
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* [Kate][kate]
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* [KDevelop][kdevelop]
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* [NetBeans][36]
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* [RubyMine][27]
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* [SciTe][28]
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* [Sublime Text][37]
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* [Vim][25] with [vim-ruby][26] plugin and [Rsense][22]
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Here is a list of popular editors used by Rubyists, broken up by
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learning curve:
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* Days
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* [Sublime Text][37] (paid)
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* [Zed][zed]
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* Months
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* [RubyMine][27] (paid)
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* "Years" (as in, you'll spend years still learning things about it)
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* [Emacs][20] with [Ruby mode][21] or [Enhanced Ruby mode][enh-ruby-mode]
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* [Vim][25] with [vim-ruby][26] plugin
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* [NeoVim][neovim]
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All of these editors support the Language Server Protocol (LSP),
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either by default or through their LSP plugins. Shopify's
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[ruby-lsp][ruby-lsp] is one of the most popular language servers for
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Ruby and [supports all of the above editors][shopify_lsp].
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### Older Reading / Resources
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These links were more prominent but haven't been updated in ages.
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[Ruby Koans][2]
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: The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn
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Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and
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some common functions and libraries. We also teach you culture.
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[Ruby Essentials][7]
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: A free on-line book designed to provide a concise
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and easy to follow guide to learning Ruby.
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* [Notepad++][29]
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[Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby][5]
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: An unconventional but interesting book that will teach you Ruby
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through stories, wit, and comics. Originally created by *why the lucky
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stiff*, this guide remains a classic for Ruby learners.
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* [TextMate][32]
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* [BBEdit][33]
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* [Dash][39] (documentation browser)
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[Learn Ruby the Hard Way][38]
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: A very good set of exercises with explanations that guide you from
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the absolute basics of Ruby all the way to OOP and web development.
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### Further Reading
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[Programming Ruby][9]
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: The seminal work on Ruby in English, this first edition of the
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[Pragmatic Programmers’ book][10] is available for free online.
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documentation sources.
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[1]: https://try.ruby-lang.org/
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[2]: https://rubykoans.com/
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[5]: https://poignant.guide
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[7]: http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ruby_Essentials
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[8]: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
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[9]: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
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[7]: https://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ruby_Essentials
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[8]: https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/
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[9]: https://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/
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[10]: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/
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[12]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language
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[extensions]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/extension_rdoc.html
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[rubyapi-org]: https://rubyapi.org/
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[19]: http://www.aptana.com/
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[20]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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[21]: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RubyMode
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[22]: http://rsense.github.io/
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[23]: http://www.geany.org/
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[24]: http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/screenshots.html
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[25]: http://www.vim.org/
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[12]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ruby_programming_language
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[16]: https://www.rubydoc.info/
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[20]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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[21]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RubyMode
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[25]: https://www.vim.org/
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[26]: https://github.com/vim-ruby/vim-ruby
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[27]: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
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[28]: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
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[29]: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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[32]: http://macromates.com/
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[33]: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/
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[34]: http://ruby-doc.org
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[36]: https://netbeans.org/
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[37]: http://www.sublimetext.com/
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[27]: https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/
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[34]: https://ruby-doc.org/
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[37]: https://www.sublimetext.com/
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[39]: http://kapeli.com/dash
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[docs-rlo-en]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/
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[atom]: https://atom.io/
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[39]: https://www.ruby-doc.org/
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[40]: https://devdocs.io/ruby/
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[42]: https://www.zenspider.com/ruby/quickref.html
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[43]: https://rubyreferences.github.io/
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[44]: https://rubystyle.guide/
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[45]: https://github.com/rubocop/ruby-style-guide
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[46]: https://ruby-style-guide.shopify.dev/
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[47]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/backend/ruby_style_guide.html
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[48]: https://github.com/airbnb/ruby
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[49]: https://www.w3resource.com/ruby/ruby-style-guide.php
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[50]: https://github.com/ruby/irb
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[51]: https://github.com/pry/pry
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[52]: https://github.com/ruby/rake
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[53]: https://ruby.github.io/rdoc/RI_md.html
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[54]: https://github.com/ruby/rbs
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[55]: https://github.com/ruby/typeprof
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[56]: https://github.com/soutaro/steep
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[codecademy]: https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-ruby
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[docs-rlo-en]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/latest
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[docs-rlo-jp]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/ja/latest
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[enh-ruby-mode]: https://github.com/zenspider/enhanced-ruby-mode/
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[exercism]: https://exercism.org/tracks/ruby
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[extensions-jp]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/jp/master/extension_rdoc.html
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[extensions]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/extension_rdoc.html
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[grounded]: https://www.manning.com/books/the-well-grounded-rubyist-third-edition
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[meta]: https://pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr2/metaprogramming-ruby-2/
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[microscope]: https://patshaughnessy.net/ruby-under-a-microscope
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[neovim]: https://neovim.io/
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[odin]: https://www.theodinproject.com/paths/full-stack-ruby-on-rails/courses/ruby
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[pickaxe]: https://pragprog.com/titles/ruby5/programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition/
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[poodr]: https://www.poodr.com/
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[ruby-lsp]: https://github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp
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[rubyapi-org]: https://rubyapi.org/
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[rubyin20]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
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[shopify_lsp]: https://shopify.github.io/ruby-lsp/editors.html)
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[zed]: https://zed.dev/

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