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 ...

Microsoft-owned online code-hosting service GitHub has detailed its massive upgrade to version 2.7 of the Ruby programming language, which it deployed to production in July after a months-long project ...

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 ...

Ruby, a dynamic language first released in 1995, has been praised for its simplicity and routinely shows up on lists of popular languages. It’s had its critics over the years as well, and two of the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Illustrating the power of the Ruby scripting language, consulting engineer Phil Tomson has used it to create the open-source Ruby hardware-description language (RHDL). Not currently ...

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Despite his criticism, Rubinius X backer Brian Shirai still loves Ruby and wants to make it more open to networked computing All appearances of condemnation aside, proponents of the Rubinius X project ...

Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...