Learn several advanced features of Ruby such as blocks, procs, threads, and metaprogramming. You’ll also experiment with the included source code and learn how to write efficiently maintainable ...

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 ...

A study based on Black Duck Software's Koders.com search engine data shows that the use of the Ruby language has grown significantly in the last four years. According to the Koders.com data, Ruby ...

Certain language features available with Ruby are not available with the others. Ruby supports closures, which assign code responsibilities to the proper object result in cleaner code.

Open-source toolchain from Shopify promises a straightforward way to build and execute simple Ruby programs in WebAssembly runtimes.

Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of Perl, Python and Ruby, only one was built from the ground up to combine scripting with object-oriented programming.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Illustrating the power of the Ruby scripting language, consulting engineer Phil Tomson has used it to create the open-source Ruby hardware-description language (RHDL). Not currently ...

Ruby, though not a purely functional language, treats functions and anonymous blocks of code as full citizens of the language, which can be passed around and manipulated like any ordinary objects.

Become a Top Coder: See Which Programming Language Is Right for You The infographic below was designed to help you decide which programming language you should learn first.