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 ...

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.

classes = VM.all_classes counts = VM.instance_counts(classes) classes.zip(counts) VirtualMachine.all_classes gives you a list (a java.util.List, but we make those behave mostly like a Ruby Array) of ...

Even then, Ruby doesn’t care about an object’s class, just whether it has a method of the name used in the method call. For this reason, the dynamic approach has earned the name duck typing: “If it ...

As I saw on Bertrand Le Roy's blog tonight, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is working on a real implementation of Ruby for the .NET platform. Our goal is to create a compiler for the Ruby ...