Ruby and Node on Windows Azure Learning Plan

As Brian mentioned in an earlier post, we’ve been working on an internal training plan for our team around using OSS languages with Windows Azure. Brian posted some resources for PHP, so it’s my turn with some Node and Ruby resources.

Node.js Resources

Learning Node.js

• Introductory video
• Node.js Step-by-step: Introduction

Setting Up Your Local Environment

• Download and install the Windows version
• Installing NPM on Windows (Experimental)
• Node.js on Windows: Who needs NPM?
• IISNode – Hosting Node applications under IIS

Node.js Applications and Windows Azure

• Node.js on Windows Azure
• Deploying Ruby (Java, Python, and Node.js) applications to Windows Azure
• waz-storage-js – Windows Azure Storage access

Ruby Resources

Learning Ruby

• Ruby in 20 minutes
• Getting Started with Rails
• Getting Started with Sinatra
• Rails for Zombies

Setting Up Your Local Environment

• Rails Installer – Installs Ruby, Rails, etc.

Ruby Applications and Windows Azure

• Deploying Ruby (Java, Python, and Node.js) applications to Windows Azure
• Command-line management utility
• waz-storage – Windows Azure Storage access
• SQL Azure Connectivity
• Using Active Record with SQL Azure
• Using Windows Azure ServiceBus
• Using Windows Azure Access Control Service

If you have any suggestions for additional resources that can be added to this list, add them in the comments.