Ruby Code Stuff

• AllAPI API functions

• How to create a Ruby extension in C in under 5 minutes

• OpenGL SuperBible Tutorial

• Ruby User's Guide

• RubyLearning Free online Ruby programming course

• RailTips.org Ruby and Rails related tips

• The Ruby Way Hal Fulton

• Try Ruby! A hands-on tutorial

• Interesting Examples

  • • Automated SketchUp 2 Excel farazforoozan - Automate SketchUp through MS Excel.

    • Prince IO Sketchup Game Demo Scott finally releases his SketchUp game created through Ruby WebDialogs.

    • Resballiza Renderiza - SketchUp game plugin.

  • Animating SketchUp Models in Ruby and Java A research project

  • Automatic SketchUp Matthew Scarpino (and two other PDF books) - Books on the SketchUp Ruby interface.

  • Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial Martin Rinehart - While it's dated [uses some globals, code not always wrapped in namespace, etc...], but a lot of people find it clear to follow...

  • Keeping My Hand In Myhand - SketchUp Ruby coding, plugins, rambling...

• SketchUcation

  • Developers' Forum SketchUcation Plugin developers' forum.

  • nsetSketchupAPI Webdialog view of the classes and methods included in Sketchup's API.

  • SketchUp - Ruby Resources Developer's Resource list on SketchUcation

• SketchUp

  • Developers' Forums Latest Trimble SketchUp forum suite.

  • Ruby 101 Introduction to Ruby from the SketchUp developers.

  • SketchUp Ruby API Extension developers' Guide

  • SketchUp Ruby API and SDK group Location of the Ruby API and SDK Groups during Google's ownership.

  • SU API Blog Ruby API blog

  • SketchUp SDK

  • skx A SketchUp community documentation Wiki

• SketchUp Ruby API Cheatsheet Alex Schreyer

• SketchUp Ruby Cookbook Rick Morin

• SuWiki Ruby Tutorials

• Procrastinators Revolt! thomthom - Tips for SketchUp Plugin development.

• WebDialogs - The Lost Manual - thomthom - A collection of poorly documented SketchUp webdialog information.

• SketchUp Developer Tools SketchUp - Open source developer tools to make plugin development easier - improved Ruby console, unit test runner, and more.

• 000RedirectPlugins Fredo6 - Plugin which will load plugins located outside SketchUp's Plugins directory.

• Clear Ruby Console Al Hart - Clears the Ruby Console window.

• EventRelay Developer functionality tool Windows

• FindWindow Function that retrieves a handle to the top-level window.

• Observer Tests A script to text SU observer function.

• Ruby Toolbar Jim Foltz - Plugin that gives more control to the SketchUp Ruby console - Windows

• Ruby Code Editor Alexander Schreyer adds additionsl features to Jim Foltz's Ruby Toolbar.

• Ruby Console+ Aerlius - An extendible Ruby console adding the ace code editor to improve your coding adventures in SketchUp.

• SCrud SketchUp Crude Ruby Debugger - A plugin to debug within SketchUp.

• SketchUp Bridge Allows external Ruby code to be executed inside SketchUp and more at SuWiki.

• SketchUp Bridge Aerilius - A bidirectional communication system between WebDialogs and the SketchUp Ruby environment. Tutorial

• SketchUp File Downloader Dana Woodman - Download files that are not stored locally. Forum thread

• Smustard Several developer scripts, like a Progress Bar.

• SuDCL Dialog interface language from Render Plus.

• Trace Ruby messages Al Hart - A ruby script that overrides the Ruby Console, and writes its messages to a file, and flushes each message as it is written.

• wxSU Use wxRuby for GUI dialogs SU API Blog.

• ColorLab Color picker, generates lists of HTML code tags - Free - Windows

• Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library No longer maintained

• JavaScript Source

• HTML color codes and names

• HTML color codes Dynamic color charts to quickly choose custom HTML color codes

• Madarin Design HTML and CSS coding tutorials on creating pretty layouts (Wayback Machine web archive link.)

• Juicebox HTML5 image gallery tools - Free, Fee

• WOW-Engine A free AS3 open source physics engine.

• RubyInstaller Win - version 1.8.6-26 - includes the SciTE text editor and the full text of Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide as a help file.

• RubyInstaller.org version 3.0.2-1

• Ruby (Other Ruby downloads are also available.)

• Rdoc A way to document a Ruby file.

Python

• SuPy And now there's a plugin for Python lovers

Books

• Automatic SketchUp Matthew Scarpino - A book on the SketchUp Ruby interface.

• Edges to Rubies - The Complete SketchUp Tutorial Martin Rinehart

• Pragmatic Programmer Publishes many programming books, including Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide and its free web edition. A PDF edition is also available. A Discussion thread, regarding the "free" edition.

• The Ruby Way Hal Fulton

• Learn to Program Chris Pine

• Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book

• RubyLearning.com

• PLEAC-Ruby

• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

• Free Book Zone Quaint, nerd-book resource

• Free Book Centre Another free, technical ebook site

related Pro Group thread xxx [dead links]

• Notepad++ The gold standard. Free - Windows

• Brackets is a modern, open-source text editor. Mac

• FreeTextBox No longer developed but can download control and source. Free - Windows

• SciTE Windows

• Arachno Ruby IDE Fee

• RDE Windows | The SketchUp Bridge developer, TBD, uses this editor to execute Ruby inside SketchUp.

• Ruby Code Editor Alexander Schreyer - SketchUp plugin which adds additional features to Jim Foltz's Ruby Toolbar.

• SketchUp Bridge TBD - SketchUp plugin to bridge your favorite text editor with SketchUp.

• SketchUp Bridge Aerilius - A bidirectional communication system between WebDialogs and the SketchUp Ruby environment. Tutorial

• Sublime Text Windows, Mac, Linux

• BBEdit Formerly known as TextWrangler. Available on the Apple Store. Mac

• TexMate Mac

• NetBeans Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris

• Metapad Windows

• Vim

• WebConsole Jim Foltz - SketchUp plugin which adds a WebDialog to test code snippets in SketchUp.

• Xcode Development tool for Mac, available through the Apple Store.

• Computational geometry: algorithms and applications Book on Google Play

• Computer Graphics via MIT OpenCourseWare

• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby Free

• Polynomial Real Root Finding in Bernstein Form Melvin R. Spencer, 1994, Some bezier curve math in the bezier scripts is based on the Berstein polynomials.

• Procedural Elements of Computer Graphics

• Savoir sans Frontières Jean-Pierre Petit - French

• Vector Math for 3D Computer Graphics

• Introduction to Computer Graphics David J. Eck (eck@hws.edu), Version 1.3, August 2021