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 ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp.

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

Use of the Ruby programming language increased 40 percent among North American software developers in an Evans Data survey being unveiled on Tuesday. The latest Evans Data North American ...

The Ruby site describes the language thusly: “Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do ...

NSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language For many developers, that could mean a shift towards C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift.