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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 ...

Java and Ruby are both open source languages ranked in the top 20 of the TIOBE index for most popular programming languages, at spots 2 and 13, respectively, for June 2020. If you want to learn a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The suggestion that Java offers a speed advantage over PHP or Ruby is true - but that's not where the real problems tend to lie in modern websites. The awesome power of RSS delivered to me this ...

For #4699, we removed the automatic initCause call for Java exceptions raised from Ruby. There were a few issues with that logic: Java does not automatically set cause for you, so there seemed to be a ...