"This beginner's guide will set up with Ruby 1.9.3, RVM and Rails 3.2.1 and is specifically written for a development environment on Ubuntu 11.10"

"Exceptional Ruby is an in-depth guide to exceptions and failure handling in Ruby."

"Ruby might be slow, but bad code only makes it worse. This talk will teach you how to use powerful tools to see how your code is executed, so you can understand, debug and optimize it."

"We have a mixture of Ruby and Java workers. All our workers accept a Hash of arguments. In one case I needed to create a job from Java to be consumed by a Ruby worker."