Frankly, both The Ruby Programming Language and Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. are very good books, and if you’re a Ruby programmer (or want to be) you should make room on your bookshelf for both of ...

The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition, by Hal Fulton, coming out Fall 2006. The bok is a "how-to" practical reference guide to the Ruby programming language.

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 ...

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.

Storybooks are just the latest tool in the toolbox. In 2012, coders Carlos Bueno and Ytaelena Lopez published a children's programming book called Lauren Ipsum, and Hello Ruby continues the trend.

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.

But to achieve deprecation-free status in Ruby 2.7, GitHub needed to fix over 11,000 issues or Ruby warnings across 40 teams, including warnings that were caused by external software libraries ...

According to the Koders.com data, Ruby usage is ahead of dynamic language alternatives such as PHP, Python and Perl, and just behind more entrenched languages such as Visual Basic, C/C++ and C#.

Microsoft has hired John Lam, the software developer behind RubyCLR, open-source software for writing .Net applications with the Ruby programming language.

RubyMonk just happens to be one of the most solid, polished options we've seen. It's free, so if you want to learn to code in Ruby it's a great place to start.

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 ...