Ruby was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, who is said to have been influenced by his favorite languages—Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada and Lisp. The language hit the streets in 1995.

The Ruby Programming Language By David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto First Edition January 2008 Pages: 444 ISBN 10: 0-596-51617-7 | ISBN 13:9780596516178 At one of the Little Language conferences ...

Ruby is an open source programming language that focuses on being simple to use. It was created by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, who blended the best parts of his favorite languages to create it. It ...

Yet, the language and its main framework (Ruby on Rails) are safe and sound. If you can’t believe it, check out these facts about Ruby: Ruby is among Top 10 programming languages.

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 ...

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.