Ruby
Get your Shoes on and go dance with code
Shoes is a Ruby-based toolkit which has the evangelical mission of letting non-programmers get their mice wet without having to go through all the tribal initiation rituals that today's computing environments demand. Read more »
JRuby: An Introduction
JRuby is a 100 percent Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, and while it does not have all the features of Ruby it does have most of built-in classes of the language. Read more »
Meta-Programming with Ruby
See how to define and invoke Ruby methods, and how to use Ruby meta-programming to create new classes on the fly, so that you have most of the tools you need for domain-specific language generation. Read more »
Modules and Introspection with Ruby
The Ruby language has a number of features that make it easy to organise code in ways that avoid duplication and makes your expressions clear and easy to understand. Read more »
Looking ahead to IronRuby
Many of us are forced (for good or ill) to code within the .NET ecosystem. With the impending release of IronRuby, .NET developers will finally be able to try this interpreted, flexible and object oriented language without giving up Visual Studio or the advantages of the .NET framework. Read more »
Kicking off with Ruby
What is Ruby and why is it useful? This article will touch on the history and features of the Ruby language, and some of the reasons you might want to have a deeper look at Ruby. Read more »
Achieve quick solutions with this Ruby in the rough
The Ruby-interpreted scripting language is an easy-to-learn environment for quickly developing object-oriented applications. Learn more about Ruby in this article from Builder.com Read more »
Ruby on Rails Explained
There are plenty of frameworks around but Ruby on Rails is a new breed, focused on productivity not language. Simon Jackson explains what makes it different. Read more »
Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0
We speak to David Heinemeier Hansson about the merits of open source, why Ruby on Rails should really be at 2.0 by now and how logic should keep out of the database. Read more »
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If you are looking to make some money in these troubled times, perhaps importing copies of Windows 7 could be for you. Read more »
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Firefox: Greens want it, 3.5rc2 not up to parThis week's roundup looks at the situation surrounding a campaign to change Outlook HTML renderer, a Greens MP wants to install Firefox but is restricted and all the photos from the iPhone 3GS launch. Read more »
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Microsoft misses the Outlook pointAsk designers which mail program is the bane of their existence, and you'll find that Outlook tops the list. The reason why the most popular email reader is also the most painful is simple: it uses Word to render HTML emails. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.





