Welcome to the Ruby Developer Center

Ruby is a very popular open-source language which lends itself especially well to object-oriented programming for the Web. If you've ever thought about combining Ruby with Yahoo!'s open APIs and Web services, read on.

• HOWTO Articles to help you understand our technologies and how you can use them better with Ruby.
• Browser-Based Authentication so you can let users authenticate using their Yahoo! credentials.
• Useful Resources on the web where you can find source code and helpful tools.
• Educational sites where you can learn how to program using Ruby.
• Community Resources where you can join our mailing list and discuss the Yahoo! APIs with us and with other Ruby developers.

HOWTOs

• Make Yahoo! Web Service REST calls with Ruby
• Cache API calls using Ruby
• Parse XML using Ruby
• Parse JSON using Ruby

Browser-Based Authentication

• Ruby wrapper for bbauth
• Using bbauth with Rails
• A Rails plug-in for bbauth

Useful Resources

• ruby-lang.org is the official Ruby homepage.
• Ruby-Doc.org has good documentation on the Ruby APIs.
• The Ruby Application Archive contains loads of Ruby applications and libraries.
• RubyForge is the home for open source Ruby projects.

Learning Ruby

• Programming Ruby, also known as The PickAxe, is a complete reference for Ruby.
• why's (poignant) guide to Ruby teaches you Ruby in a fun way.
• Ruby user's guide by Matz, the creator of Ruby. (Translated to English.)
• TryRuby is an online Ruby tutorial that runs in real time.

Ruby On Rails

If you're just getting started with Ruby, check out Ruby On Rails. From their site:

"Ruby On Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server."

Community Resources

Discuss how to work with the Yahoo! Web Services and other APIs using Ruby on the ydn-ruby mailing list. Please note that this is not a general Ruby programming list; try to keep your questions focused to discussion about the Yahoo! APIs.

We also provide individual lists for each of the web services and APIs we support; your questions are always welcome there as well. See the Yahoo! Developer Network Community page for more information on these mailing lists.