text: where do i learn ruby?   there is a lot of good information and tutorials online for ruby.  to start, check out the main ruby site: http://www.ruby-lang.org  the original, "definitive" reference is available online: http://www.rubycentral.com/book/  the second edition, dead tree format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0974514055/index.html  there's a clever, interactive tutorial at: http://tryruby.hobix.com/  there is a popular framework that makes a lot of web development things easier called ruby on rails: http://www.rubyonrails.org/