Ruby on Rails is not used nearly as much as other Web tools such as PHP, Java or Microsoft tools. But it has caught the attention of some of the influential programmers who help popularize new ...

Hackety Hack will walk you through Ruby basics and have you creating simple apps quickly. The Shoes toolkit isn't just for making simple apps. Once you learn the basics that Hackety Hack will ...

Ruby For Kids differs from Hakety Hack, another great Ruby learning resource, in a few ways. The first is that they take a game-centered approach to learning, which makes it particularly ...

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 may not be a new paradigm, nor represent a new generation, but it combines the best of many programming languages and takes productivity to a new level. I am not original in stating that Ruby may ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

Gecode/R, a Ruby Google SoC sponsored project, aims to make constraint programming available to Ruby developers. Andreas Launila, who develops the project, explains constraint programming: ...

Ruby for Kids Helps Teach Programming I’ve long been interested in ways to help teach kids programming. Especially my kids, though they’re still young.

David Geary, who has authored books on Java and sits on the technical committee for the latest Java Web programming model, has found that Ruby on Rails is five to 10 times faster than comparable ...