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 ...

Despite his criticism, Rubinius X backer Brian Shirai still loves Ruby and wants to make it more open to networked computing All appearances of condemnation aside, proponents of the Rubinius X project ...

The rumors about the demise of Ruby have been circulating the developer world for years and articles prophesying the “death” of Ruby appear with amazing regularity. Yet, the language and its main ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we head toward Christmas what could be more festive than learning a new programming language? As an early present (ho-ho-ho), we bring you a fascinating and highly useful language called Ruby. As ...

About ten years ago, back when I was working in New York, friends of mine showed me something that knocked my socks off—a program that actually ran inside of the Web browser, without any need for ...