A 30 minute introduction to the world of the Ruby programming language by Peter Cooper. It's aimed at novices and provides a broad, high-level overview of the language and its ecosystem.
Peter Cooper shows you how to easily and reliably install Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10. Based roughly around Ryan Bigg's written tutorial at http://ryanbigg.com/2010/12/ubuntu-ruby-rvm-...
A quick walkthrough screencast of the easy installation process of Homebrew, a better package manager for Mac OS X, as it is performed on Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard.
Peter Cooper demonstrates how to use the default text editor (gedit) in Ubuntu 10.10 Linux as a basic editor for Ruby files and then how to run a Ruby script at the Terminal.
It's just as well as I can't sing - thus making this a parody! :) BTW, that's NOT me in the video - that's Nick Pitera who did the awesome original cover.
Peter Cooper gives a basic demo of installing Ruby 1.9.2 on Windows and setting up a simple, free IDE/editor (Komodo Edit) to write and run basic Ruby files.
My iPad's screen frequently gets lots of "phantom touch" events in a 1" wide strip of the screen. This causes a lot of nonsense to occur, as depicted here. I took this video to show the geniuses at...