The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing ...

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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 ...

Wow! Sun has hired Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo to work on JRuby full time. This is a pretty momentus event, and is already sending shockwaves around the Ruby world. Charles broke the news on his ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

I did another pass on compiler2, and managed to wire in signature support. So let’s look at a couple examples: class MyRubyClass def helloWorld puts "Hello from Ruby" end def goodbyeWorld(a) puts a ...

On Election Day, as Donald Trump raged on Twitter about revolution, Nate Silver took an opportunity to pitch his book, and an 18-year old girl vowed to move to Australia “because their president is a ...