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 ...

Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? David Heinemeier Hansson, a 26-year-old Copenhagen native, has built a "framework" to help Web developers be more ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp. Ruby ...

Last September adtech startup Staq put out a call to all would-be developers: come to Baltimore to learn Ruby programming and we’ll pay you $20 an hour. After five months, the results are in. From the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

If you're looking to get into web development and want to learn one of the more popular programming languages on the web, RubyMonk can teach you to code in the Ruby language. It features interactive ...

I've long been interested in ways to help teach kids programming. Especially my kids, though they're still young. I got interested in computers when my dad wrote a "guess the number" game for me which ...

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 ...