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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.

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Download the OpenSolaris operating system, a fully functional desktop environment that that features ZFS (Zettabyte File System), DTrace (Dynamic Tracing) and the OpenSolaris Image Packaging System.

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Write your first Ruby-on-Rails web app right away. All you need to start is the OpenSolaris operating system.

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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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Deploy your application on the GlassFish application server.

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

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Get Involved

Here are links to the Ruby community outside of Sun.

• The Ruby community has lots of activity going on around it, as you might expect.
  Ruby Forums
• Here's where you can contribute to the JRuby community. Comment on the code, contribute components, and more.
  JRuby Forums
• The Ruby-on-Rails community offers a mailing list, wiki, IRC, bug tracking, and a place to get involved.
  Ruby on Rails Forums
• The RubyGems community lives on RubyForge.
• RubyForge is the home for open-source Ruby projects like RubyGems, Instant Rails, Ruby PDF Tools, and much more.
• Get involved in the Groovy community. Subscribe to the mailing lists and take part in any of the many conversations, add some comments to the wiki, joining a mailing list, project, group, or blog about it.
  Groovy Forums
• Grails has a growing following and if you want to get involved the developers are keen to have ideas, code and just about anything contributed.
  Grails Forums

Spotlight

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.

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