Ruby - The Programming Language

Here a few links that are good as a first look while learning Ruby.

General:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml
http://www.ruby-lang.org/
http://www.37signals.com/
http://www.ruby-doc.org
http://api.rubyonrails.com/
http://www.ruby-forum.com/
http://www.rubyforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=227
http://railsforum.com/
http://www.rubyinside.com/
http://redhanded.hobix.com/
http://www.rubyist.net/~matz/
http://www.planetrubyonrails.com/

:symbols in Ruby

http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2005/08/19/understanding-ruby-symbols
http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/SymbolsAreNotImmutableStrings.red

writing daemons

http://daemons.rubyforge.org/classes/Daemonize.html


more to come...