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Welcome to your resource center for the Ruby programming language and JRuby, its implementation for the Java platform, and the Ruby-on-Rails web development framework.


NetBeans: The Best Tool for Ruby Developers

The NetBeans IDE is the best tool for programming in Ruby and JRuby, and for developing with the Ruby-on-Rails framework. It's free and open source. Download NetBeans here or get it bundled with Solaris Express, Developer Edition (SXDE).

NetBeans: The Best Tool for Ruby Developers


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What Is Ruby?

Find out about Ruby's different flavors, the operating systems, the app servers, the databases, and more in this in-depth article Introduction to Ruby at Sun. Or for a quick look, just click here:

Ruby   JRuby   Rails   Gems

RubyGems are packages for publishing and managing third-party libraries. The Gems community lives on RubyForge.

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Ruby was created by Japanese developer Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and released in 1995. The language's creator says that Ruby is designed for programmer productivity and fun, following the principles of good user interface design.

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JRuby is a 100% pure-Java technology implementation of the Ruby programming language, developed by Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo.

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Ruby on Rails is a package that provides a full-stack, open-source framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the model-view-control pattern. Created by David Heinemeier Hansson, Rails make Ruby development very easy and skyrocketed the popularity of the Ruby language.

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Get the NetBeans IDE with its editor and plug-ins for developing web applications using Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails.

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Get an all-in-one download of everything you need to start developing applications with Ruby, JRuby, and Rails with Solaris Express, Developer Edition (SXDE).

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Deploy your application on the GlassFish application server.

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Get Cool Stack, the SAMP for Solaris OS. It's got Ruby and more bundled in it.

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