One of the most exciting developments in programming over the last few years is the emergence of Ruby-a free, highly portable, open-source scripting language that was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995. It is already extremely popular in Japan and is coming on strong in the U.S. Web development community.
Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented language with functionality that is similar to Java, Perl and Python. In addition, the Ruby-based Web-application framework-Ruby on Rails-enables developers to build powerful Web applications.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails are known for their simplicity. Some developers have experienced many-fold increases in productivity over .NET and Java/J2EE when building similar Web applications.
Our New Ruby Resource Center includes links to Ruby and Ruby on Rails resources, downloads, tutorials, documentation, books, e-books, journals, articles, blogs and more.