Ruby is essentially a scripting language. Talking about some of its important features, it's thoroughly object-oriented, dynamically typed and an imperative programming language. It is, in many ways, ...

Ruby on Rails is an up and coming Web application framework that has been surrounded by an incredible amount of buzz. While it might not be of a core interest to most Web publishers, let alone most ...

In this chapter we'll introduce you into three libraries, XML-RPC for Ruby (xmlrpc4r), Simple Object Access Protocol for Ruby (SOAP4R) and Distributed Ruby (DRb). The first two are interfaces to ...

You already know how to extend Ruby's built-in functionality by importing modules with the require statement. Although these extension modules are often written in Ruby, they can also be written in C ...

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 ...

Before we get into understanding what Ruby on Rails is we need to know a bit about Ruby, the user friendly language that has taken the world by storm. Simply put, Rails is a software library. It ...

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 ...