When faced with the prospect of learning to code, aspiring programmers are hit with the complexity, the arcane symbols, and the fear that they simply aren't technical enough to learn code. The initial ...

Everybody in modern IT operations should know how to write scripts. If you're a scripting beginner, make it a priority for the next step of your career. The Ruby language is easy to use for IT ...

The language jumps seven spots from a year ago in Tiobe's index, while C's popularity takes a big hit Once faltering, Ruby is now making a comeback in language popularity. In this month’s Tiobe index, ...

Since its release in 1995, programmers have used Ruby for both web development and higher-level server management projects. Whether a novice or veteran, Ruby and the Rails framework offer programmers ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Despite his criticism, Rubinius X backer Brian Shirai still loves Ruby and wants to make it more open to networked computing All appearances of condemnation aside, proponents of the Rubinius X project ...