“Funny, we’re doing the same thing, except virtual, and for a nominal fee of $100 (which includes course textbook – Rails Tutorial PDF),” wrote Rubyist Chris ...

Salesforce.com said Wednesday that it will acquire Heroku, a cloud platform for writing applications in the Ruby programming language, for $212 million. The news, which comes out of Salesforce.com's ...

Finding a great computer programmer can be like discovering a diamond in the rough. Or for Brad Rumph, perhaps a Ruby. Finding a great computer programmer can be like discovering a diamond in the ...

Demand for Ruby on Rails talent continues at a steady pace, and developers with the skills and knowledge of this language are red-hot. Over the last five years, demand for Ruby on Rails skills has ...

A survey of software developers to learn their opinions of development frameworks has revealed that Microsoft's .NET is much loved, and Ruby On Rails ranks near the bottom in developer satisfaction.

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Over 700 malicious packages with names similar to legitimate ones have been uploaded to RubyGems, a popular repository of third-party components for the Ruby programming language. The upload took ...

The rumors about the demise of Ruby have been circulating the developer world for years and articles prophesying the “death” of Ruby appear with amazing regularity. Yet, the language and its main ...

This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum. Developers are a mighty stubborn bunch. Unlike the rest of the enterprise IT market, where a ...

In 2007, software developer Laurent Sansonetti launched an open source software project called MacRuby. It aimed to build a Ruby interpreter on top of the Objective-C runtime, providing a seamless ...