Beginners introduction, on installing Ruby, and writing a first simple script.

Provides a tutorial explaining how to use the active record library outside of a rails application.

By David Thomas and Andrew Hunt. Offers a beginner guide to start with the language.

By Daniel Carrera. Introduces programming, Ruby, assumes familiarity with computers in Unix X Terminal environment, but not Ruby; simple descriptions, many screenshots. Unfinished, but well done and useful for what is done.

Provides a Ruby and Rails guide for beginners.

Provides slides and examples to use the Prawn library.

Describes how to embed Ruby interpreter in C++, gives skeleton to build on, treats concepts of embedding, advanced topics like SWIG. Descriptions, code, diagrams, links, news.

Questions and official answers on Ruby.

IBM developerWorks group space: articles, podcasts, RSS feeds, courses.

Provides an introduction to the language with slides. [English, Russian, French]