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Collection of random tricks you can do with Ruby		12 Oct 12
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James Edward Gray II just gave a talk at the Aloha Ruby Conference covering a bundle of random tricks you can do with Ruby. https://speakerdeck.com/u/jeg2/p/10-things-you-didnt-know-ruby-could-do

string-eater by Dan Swain		21 Aug 12
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A fast ruby string tokenizer. It eats strings and dumps tokens. https://github.com/simplifi/string-eater

First NMatrix Alpha Released		09 May 12
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Ruby linear algebra library sciruby.com/blog/2012/04/11/first-nmatrix-alpha-released/

On ruby string performance		05 Jan 12
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patshaughnessy.net/2012/1/4/never-create-ruby-strings-longer-than-23-characters

Ruby Hacking Guide

05 Jan 12

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The RHG is a book that explains how the ruby interpreter (the official C implementation of the Ruby language) works internally.

To fully understand it, you need a good knowledge of C and Ruby. The original book includes a Ruby tutorial (chapter 1), but it has not been translated yet, and we think there are more important chapters to translate first. So if you have not done it yet, you should read a book like the Pickaxe firs

rhg.rubyforge.org/

Reinstall all gems		19 Dec 11
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Thanks to Jake Good for the useful one-liner: sudo gem list \| grep -v "* LOCAL GEMS *" \| awk '{print $1}' \| xargs -n1 sudo gem pristine

Videos for the 2010 rubyconf online		06 Jan 11
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Videos from Matz and many others .. enjoy :-) confreaks.net/events/rubyconf2010

MacRuby book online		28 Dec 10
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An early release version of this book online. ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449380373/index.html

Faster Date/DateTime		27 Aug 10
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home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than the version in the standard library, while being almost completely compatible. github.com/jeremyevans/home_run

Interview with the author of Tokyo Cabinet: Mikio Hirabayashi		26 May 10
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tokyocabinetwiki.pbworks.com/02_MikioHirabayashiTheAuthor

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