This isn’t a slight against the language though! It has continued to evolve in the duration, with the release of 1.x versions. In fact Ruby 1.9, which released in 2007, changed the language in ...

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 ...

"Programming Ruby": Everyone's Favorite Language Raleigh, NC--In four short years, the Ruby programming language has gone from an unknown upstart to a major player in the programmer's world, thanks ...

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 ...

Ruby has many faces - well just two main ones really, object oriented and functional. Everything in Ruby is an object and every expression returns a value. Functional thinking isn't as easy to acquire ...

At one of the Little Language conferences in Cambridge, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto gave a talk on his Ruby language to an audience made up largely of academics, language designers, and language ...

Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...