Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework for developing Model-View-Controller (MVC) Web applications that access databases. Ruby on Rails is based on the object-oriented Ruby scripting language.

Back in December, Art.sy’s Daniel Doubrovkine announced he would be teaching a six-week class geared toward developers, assisted by Pivotal Labs’s Dimitri Roche, on the popular, powerful and ...

There are some fundamental things broken with Ruby 2.0 and the latest Rails version, 3.2.12. For instance, the method that Rails calls to duplicate objects in Ruby was changed to a private method in ...

The latest upgrade to Ruby, the popular open source dynamic language, will enhance both performance and simplicity. A preview of the upgrade, Ruby 2.4.0, was released this week. The general release of ...

Ever since the invention of the computer, software development has been trending towards higher-level languages. From assembly language, to C, to C++, to Java, each step up has met with the same ...

Ruby, an interpreted programming language that looks and feels like a cross between Smalltalk and Perl, has been around for about ten years. Ruby has been gaining in popularity over the last few years ...

This article is excerpted from Rails for Java Developers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, with permission of The Pragmatic Programmers. All rights reserved ...