Contents Page

This is not a blog in the true sense, where I create a new post each time I learn something. Instead, I am collecting what I learn into a collection of larger posts, and updating those posts as I learn more. Below is a list (a contents page if you like) of posts to date (22/Dec/09) grouped by topic, rather than chronologically, for easy reference.

Ruby Basics
Constants
Variables
Conditional statements
Case statements and relationship operator
Loops
Regular Expressions
Exception Handling

Methods, classes, etc.
Ruby Classes
Duck-typing
Methods - Basics
Methods - Not Overloading
Methods - method_missing
Methods - calling
Modules
Singletons
Proc objects
Blocks
Accessors
Operator Overloading

The Ruby Library (excluding Rails)
Hashes
Arrays
Strings
File Access
Time, Date and DateTime
Unit Testing
YAML
REXML for XML
Sockets
GUI with Shoes
GUI with Monkeybars (and Swing)

Miscellaneous
JRuby and Java

Links to APIs
Because I am always refering to these three...
Array
String
Hash

Rails
Building a Project
Basic Project
Deploying on Tomcat

The Model
Creation
Validation and Association
Interactive Rails Environment
Testing
Find and other methods
Date and Time
Gotchas

The Controller
Routing
Basic Methods
Render and Filter
Functional Testing
Testing for valid HTML

The View
ERB and Links
Scope, Helpers and Partials
Using Forms
Using Select/Options
Partials as methods

Handling Images On Rails
Dynamic Images with RMagick
Dynamic Images with Java
Generating Line Graphs with Java
Uploadable Images with File Column

More On Rails
Integration Testing
Rails Mailer
Usage Statistics on a Bar Graph with HTML
Single Table Inheritance
Moving to Rails 2.2.2
Moving to Rails 2.3.8
Using JavaScript
Using Java applets
Organising in Subdirectories
named_scope
Iterating through records
Singularize and Pluralize
Capturing file uploads

Useful Links
General Ruby and Rails
Good Rails tutorial that go beyond the very basic:
http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/5/25/rolling-with-rails-2-1-the-first-full-tutorial-part-1

Book on Ruby (not Rails):
http://ruby.activeventure.com/programmingruby/book/index.html

FAQ
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html

Cheatsheet:
http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/ruby-on-rails-cheat-sheet/

Quick ref:
http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/QuickRef.html

Others
PDF generation:
http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

XML handling with REXML
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html
http://www.developer.com/lang/article.php/3672621