What Ruby Makes Easy…and Hard The original Ruby is called Matz Ruby Interpreter (MRI). It is a classic interpreter, similar to Perl, but it doesn’t use any byte code as do Lua, Python and Java.

To help Ruby developers, Amazon Web Services has updated its SDK for the open-source programming language, allowing developers to write less code.

Writing good code requires close attention to detail and lots of will power and discipline. Good habits are half the battle.

Ruby on Rails “lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration,” the framework’s official Web site promises.

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks ...