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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Programming languages: Go, Scala and Ruby most wanted, Python and JavaScript most used Software developers with Go skills got the most interview requests thanks to their in-demand skills, says Hired.

The latest edition of the TIOBE Index that plots the popularity of programming languages focuses on the reascendance of Ruby in the rankings.