The latest edition of the TIOBE Index that plots the popularity of programming languages focuses on the reascendance of Ruby in the rankings. "Ruby is currently at position 8 in the TIOBE index," said ...

Ruby is a programming language created by Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto, released in 1995. Its birth had its origins in certain values and principles that were held dear by its creator. The most important ...

When faced with the prospect of learning to code, aspiring programmers are hit with the complexity, the arcane symbols, and the fear that they simply aren't technical enough to learn code. The initial ...

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 ...

Jeff Cohen‘s blog post Ruby 101: Naming Conventions does a nice job of covering conventions associated with the Ruby programming language. I like how he specifically writes to Java developers and .NET ...

Interested in becoming a Rails expert? These eight TechRepublic Academy certification courses and bundles can help. Ruby on Rails is a web app development framework that uses the simple and secure ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...