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 ...

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, ...

Programming language Ruby is a great language to learn, even if it’s a little lower in profile than Swift or JavaScript. Ruby, and its counterpart Ruby on Rails are widely used to create interactive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...