Ruby, the popular object-oriented open-source programming language, is a great place to start learning programming or web development. You can use it to write interactive programs or to build scripts ...

Mac OS X provides rich scripting and automation tools that can simplify everyday tasks—if you know how to use them. The roster includes the venerable command line, the graphical Automator utility, and ...

This isn’t a slight against the language though! It has continued to evolve in the duration, with the release of 1.x versions. In fact Ruby 1.9, which released in 2007, changed the language in ...

Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (often referred to as "Matz") in the mid-1990s in Japan. It was designed to be a language that emphasizes simplicity and productivity, making it enjoyable for ...