Ruby is an incredibly easy language to learn, and there's a lot of evidence why it is simple to break into and start.

Among programmers, there has long been a dispute between those who want a language to constrain them and those who want great flexibility. If you have been programming for a while, you'll understand ...

Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have yanked 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor mechanism and were caught inserting code that launched hidden ...

Backdoor code was found added in a popular Ruby library used for frontend user interfaces inside Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. The malicious code was removed via a library update. The ...

The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for the next decade. On December 21, 2025, the Ruby language turned 30 years old ...

Maintainers behind the Ruby programming language have revised the project's Code of Conduct on GitHub to remove tolerating opposing viewpoints as a prerequisite. The decision comes after a community ...

Karlie Kloss made headlines last year when she announced she was not only a high-ranking model but could also code in Ruby. Kloss, who says she’s always been interested in math and science, started ...

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Monkey-patching can be very useful, and many patterns in Ruby are built around the ability to modify classes. It can also cause problems if a library patches code in a way the user does not expect (or ...

It’s been one of those nights, my friends! An outstanding night! All day Sunday I had the stupids. It was probably related to a few beers on Saturday night, or the couple glasses of red wine before ...

Learning to code on your own is difficult and unnecessary, particularly considering how many coding languages there are. The Master Learn to Code 2021 Certification Bundle will take you from newbie to ...