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The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing ...

Charles Nutter remembers when, working as a Java architect, he attended a conference and saw the Ruby programming language for the first time. And he was blown away. “I was just stunned that I ...

The JRuby team has released JRuby 10, a major upgrade of the Ruby implementation on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), introducing compatibility with Ruby 3.4, full support for Java 21, and several ...

Dynamic languages are the up-and-coming competitors to Java. Expanding their scope beyond glue code and Web GUIs into the heavy-duty challenges once faced only with a compiler, languages such as ...

Alternative Ruby implementations seem to be on the move throughout the Ruby community. JRuby is the furthest along at this point, so I decided to talk to Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, two of the ...

I did another pass on compiler2, and managed to wire in signature support. So let’s look at a couple examples: class MyRubyClass def helloWorld puts "Hello from Ruby" end def goodbyeWorld(a) puts a ...