We live in an exciting new world of Web development languages. But pitches selling the productivity benefits of one language over another miss the point.

Use of the Ruby programming language increased 40 percent among North American software developers in an Evans Data survey being unveiled on Tuesday. The latest Evans Data North American ...

How to Find Qualified Ruby on Rails Developers: 7 Steps. To find the right talent, you must have a clear step-by-step process in place and know which specific criteria to use during the search.

There are a variety of development platforms or programs to choose from including Java, Python, and Ruby among others. But in my experience, Ruby on Rails is the go-to app for developing web apps ...

Ruby has a strong and active developer community. Ruby’s famed Rails framework has almost 3,500 contributors on GitHub . By contrast, the Django framework for Python has fewer than half as many ...

But that doesn’t mean Ruby is popular; it only means that it’s an active and interested developer community. That speaks well (most of the time) for the passion of its users.

Helping to fill that void, Sapphire Steel Software, of Hartland, U.K., last month shipped Ruby In Steel Developer, a Ruby IDE (integrated development environment) for Microsofts Visual Studio 2005.

Hiring a developer skilled in Ruby on Rails often le ads to questions about the necessary qualifications and attributes. How can one identify a developer who fits the needs of a […] ...

Ruby developers know this, and can be choosy when considering job opportunities, says John Parker, CEO, Enfocus Solutions. Organizations with a demand for Ruby on Rails talent need to make sure ...

Ruby also has enabled the Twitter development team to use agile development techniques, he said. Moreover, the development team has been able to work more efficiently because it eats its own dog ...