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 ...

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.

And they succeeded in this to some extent. Ruby became the language for fancy start-up companies with their tight time to market schedules. It was even awarded 'Programming Language of 2006' until its ...

The language, he says, also embraces multiple paradigms: “Ruby is a distinctly postmodern language: It takes the best from all the major programming paradigms. You can go object-oriented when ...

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 ...

Ruby’s quick learning curve, flexibility, fast prototyping and powerful metaprogramming earned it a devoted following and cemented its status as one of the top programming languages for building ...

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 ...

The site, however, has yet to report a Ruby resurgence as reported by TIOBE. Neither have some other programming language popularity sites, such as PopularitY of Programming Language Index (PYPL), ...