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Are you spending valuable time on work a well-trained monkey could do? If so, Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts will teach you how to automate repetitive tasks using Ruby, one of the most powerful and ...

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.

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In the world of programming languages, sometimes you don’t need the overhead and performance of Java, C#, C++ and other power tools. Sometimes a scripting language, or Swiss army knife, will do. Of ...

Everybody in modern IT operations should know how to write scripts. If you're a scripting beginner, make it a priority for the next step of your career. The Ruby language is easy to use for IT ...

Seems I run into another weird-ass limitation on this server every day. You might remember I had trouble earlier executing anything at all. I fixed that. Then I had trouble writing to a directory for ...

With this article, I hope to share with you some of my excitement about what Ruby can do for my Java-based systems. I compare the strengths and weaknesses of both Java and Ruby, and present the pros ...