Programming Ruby, 2nd Ed. goes farther afield in its 800+ pages, but has less material on the language itself and more material on ancillary matters.

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. In his blog, Lam said that he will be ...

Ruby’s quick learning curve, flexibility, fast prototyping and powerful metaprogramming earned it a devoted following and cemented its status as one of the top programming languages for building ...

Ruby on Rails is a web app development framework that uses the simple and secure Ruby programming language. According to Stack Overflow’s 2022 Developer Survey, Ruby is included in the top 20 ...

Chef uses the Ruby programming language. In Chef, the information about everything that must be changed, created or run on a node is included in a recipe.

While the most used programming languages move ahead of their competition, there is still room for new options for developers.