If you're looking to get into web development and want to learn one of the more popular programming languages on the web, RubyMonk can teach you to code in the Ruby language. It features interactive ...

I've long been interested in ways to help teach kids programming. Especially my kids, though they're still young. I got interested in computers when my dad wrote a "guess the number" game for me which ...

The Ruby programming language continues its tradition of delivering major updates on Christmas Day, announcing the release of ...

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 ...

If you have always wanted to teach your child a programming language, there is no better time than the present. Ruby for kids is a site that includes directions and screencasts for a new programmer, ...

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 ...

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The latest edition of the TIOBE Index that plots the popularity of programming languages focuses on the reascendance of Ruby in the rankings. "Ruby is currently at position 8 in the TIOBE index," said ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby ...