At one of the Little Language conferences in Cambridge, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto gave a talk on his Ruby language to an audience made up largely of academics, language designers, and language ...

Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

As we head toward Christmas what could be more festive than learning a new programming language? As an early present (ho-ho-ho), we bring you a fascinating and highly useful language called Ruby. As ...

Longtime favorite for web development falls to 30th in the Tiobe index of language popularity. ‘There is no need for Ruby anymore.’ ...