Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming Solo-created framework is making waves among programmers and analysts as the next hot trend in Web development.

Hackety Hack will walk you through Ruby basics and have you creating simple apps quickly. The Shoes toolkit isn't just for making simple apps. Once you learn the basics that Hackety Hack will ...

Ruby for kids is a site that includes directions and screencasts for a new programmer, young or old, to get started in the Ruby programming language.

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 ...

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.

If Web development application tools were a music festival, Ruby on Rails would be the hot up-and-coming act, stealing much of the attention away from the aging headliners, such as .Net or Java ...

Ruby’s quick learning curve, flexibility, fast prototyping and powerful metaprogramming earned it a devoted following and cemented its status as one of the top programming languages for building ...

Ruby for Kids Helps Teach Programming I’ve long been interested in ways to help teach kids programming. Especially my kids, though they’re still young.

Last September adtech startup Staq put out a call to all would-be developers: come to Baltimore to learn Ruby programming and we’ll pay you $20 an hour. After five months, the results are in. From the ...

Solo-created framework is making waves among programmers and analysts as the next hot trend in Web development.