We programmers are lucky to be working today. I say this because there are so many excellent programming languages from which to choose, especially in the Open Source world. One of the most ...

This is a beginner level workshop for girls 9-12 years old. Computers don't really understand English... So how do we communicate with them? Through programming, of course! Ruby is an open-source ...

If the thought of diving into yet another hot new technology gives you a headache, I sympathize. I’ve stuck mainly to PHP and Perl for years, happily ignoring most other development fads. However, I’m ...

The main site for Ruby is ruby-lang.org. You can download the source code for Ruby by clicking on the download link along the right side of the page. The standard ...

For this workshop, we say good bye to the web browser and hello to our computer, literally. Ruby is one of the many languages your computer understands and that you can use to speak to it, but is ...