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 ...

If Web development application tools were a music festival, Ruby on Rails would be the hot up-and-coming act, stealing much of the attention away from the aging headliners, such as .Net or Java. The ...

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If you have always wanted to teach your child a programming language, there is no better time than the present. Ruby for kids is a site that includes directions and screencasts for a new programmer, ...

Windows and Mac OS X: Hackety Hack is an application designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby, eventually giving you the ability to create actual applications for the desktop and ...

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 ...

There are many, many different programming languages that developers use when building web products. C++, Javascript, Python, GO, Rust, Ruby PHP, the list goes on. Figuring out where to start can be ...

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 ...