Ruby and Ruby on Rails exploded onto the web development scene in the early aughts. But while JavaScript and Python rule the roost today, Ruby still has its place.

Ruby has a strong and active developer community. Ruby’s famed Rails framework has almost 3,500 contributors on GitHub.By contrast, the Django framework for Python has fewer than half as many ...

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Second, Ruby has a healthy and established community behind it, which is a huge advantage for a growing company. Which developments are you watching in the Ruby community? Interoperability has been ...

Much of the Web has traditionally been created using dynamic languages, from Ajax on the client to server code written in PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby. Ruby on Rails in particular has driven a lot ...

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Although Ruby and Ruby on Rails have similar names, there's actually an important difference. Ruby is a scripting language, just like Python, but Ruby on Rails is a Web app framework built on Ruby.

The beta includes access to the latest stable versions of Ruby 1.9.3 with Rails 3.2.8; Python 2.7 and 3.3; PHP 5.4; and Perl 5.16.3. Developers can also get their hands on a technology preview of ...