If Web development application tools were a music festival, Ruby on Rails would be the hot up-and-coming act, stealing much of the attention away from the aging headliners, such as .Net or Java ...

TIOBE Software, a Netherlands software firm that hosts the TIOBE (The Importance of Being Earnest) Programming Community Index, ranks Ruby as No. 10 among programming languages worldwide.

Windows and Mac OS X: Hackety Hack is an application designed to teach complete beginners how to program in Ruby, eventually giving you the ability to create actual applications for the desktop ...