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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 project ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.