A Practical Introduction to Ruby: First Steps: Introduces Ruby to beginners. Treats installing, and writing a first simple script.
Learning Ruby: By Daniel Carrera. Introduces programming, Ruby, assumes familiarity with computers in Unix X Terminal environment, but not Ruby; simple descriptions, many screenshots. Unfinished, but well done and useful for what is done.
Ruby Documentation Project: Links and downloads for Ruby programming documentation.
Ruby Embedded into C++: Describes how to embed Ruby interpreter in C++, gives skeleton to build on, treats concepts of embedding, advanced topics like SWIG. Descriptions, code, diagrams, links, news.
Ruby FAQ: Questions and official answers on Ruby.
Ruby User's Guide: Original Japanese version by matz. First English translation by GOTO Kentaro and Julian Fondren. Further translation and editing by Mark Slagell.
RubyCocoa Resources: Documentation and examples, as digital books, for RubyCocoa, a bridge between Ruby and Objective-C, a way to make desktop programs with Ruby.
Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know: By Bill Tjokroaminata. List of most common 'gotchas' in this language, in HTML, text. Table of contents, descriptions, code samples, links.
Thirty-seven Reasons I Love Ruby: By Hal Fulton.
Try Ruby: Beginner's basic tutorial, online, interactive, works in Web browser, has Ruby interpreter above with lessons below.