Jeff Cohen‘s blog post Ruby 101: Naming Conventions does a nice job of covering conventions associated with the Ruby programming language. I like how he specifically writes to Java developers and .NET ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last time, we set up the environment. This time, as the basics of Ruby, we will look at how to use "irb" and execute script ...