Agglomeration of Ruby blogs

Quoted: Meeting place for people interested in the Ruby Programming Language or any of the related technologies and projects around this object oriented language

Program a Mario game and win some prizes.

Quoted: It's simple! We give you some spritesheets from the classic 2D-platform Mario games, and using those sheets, you create your own unique game

These guys put out some great books. In addition, they pre-sell beta versions of their books in PDF, with regular updates, to get you going with new stuff earlier.

Quoted: Software Consulting and Resources for Developers and Managers. Home of Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas's best-selling book 'The Pragmatic Programmer' and The 'Pragmatic Starter Kit (tm)' series.

This book helps make Design Patterns go from something academic to a useful set of tools. This is not a comprehensive set of patterns, but the ones that are covered are covered in depth.

Quoted: Amazon.com: Head First Design Patterns: Books: Elisabeth Freeman,Eric Freeman,Bert Bates,Kathy Sierra by Elisabeth Freeman,Eric Freeman,Bert Bates,Kathy Sierra

Its pretty sad how many bad programmers are out there. Most of the posts are technical, but some are obvious to even the casual observer.