In response to Friday's news story that Ruby on Rails 2.0 had been released, I decided that it was time to update my installation. I opened a C-Shell on the Windows box I use for Rails development, ...

Ruby, an interpreted programming language that looks and feels like a cross between Smalltalk and Perl, has been around for about ten years. Ruby has been gaining in popularity over the last few years ...

Ruby on Rails is an open source Web framework for developing Model-View-Controller (MVC) Web applications that access databases. Ruby on Rails is based on the object-oriented Ruby scripting language.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...