Microsoft-owned online code-hosting service GitHub has detailed its massive upgrade to version 2.7 of the Ruby programming language, which it deployed to production in July after a months-long ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Illustrating the power of the Ruby scripting language, consulting engineer Phil Tomson has used it to create the open-source Ruby hardware-description language (RHDL). Not currently ...

Certain language features available with Ruby are not available with the others. Ruby supports closures, which assign code responsibilities to the proper object result in cleaner code.

Among programmers, there has long been a dispute between those who want a language to constrain them and those who want great flexibility. If you have been programming for a while, you'll understand ...

Learn several advanced features of Ruby such as blocks, procs, threads, and metaprogramming. You’ll also experiment with the included source code and learn how to write efficiently maintainable ...

A study based on Black Duck Software's Koders.com search engine data shows that the use of the Ruby language has grown significantly in the last four years. According to the Koders.com data, Ruby ...

Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. goes farther afield in its 800+ pages, but has less material on the language itself and more material on ancillary matters.

Rubinius, an implementation of the Ruby programming language featuring enhancements for JIT (Just In Time) compilation and garbage collection, is being upgraded Friday, gaining improvements in ...

Become a Top Coder: See Which Programming Language Is Right for You The infographic below was designed to help you decide which programming language you should learn first.

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 ...