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.

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 ...

A study based on Black Duck Software's Koders.com search engine data shows that the use of the Ruby language has grown significantly in the last four years. According to the Koders.com data, Ruby ...

Y Combinator startup Heroku, which has been in private beta since October, is coming out today with more details about how it’s out to ease the development and deployment of Ruby on Rails (RoR ...