InfoQ talked with Sandi Metz, author of "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" about her book, learning from open source code, making sensible use of code analysis tools and other topics.

According to Wikipedia: "Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto in Japan.

Ruby, the object-oriented programming language used by the Rails framework, was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in 1995. Everything in Ruby is an object — every variable and even such ...

WSF/Ruby, an open-source framework for providing and consuming Web services in the Ruby object-oriented programming language, offers support for the WS-* stack, allowing developers to combine Ruby ...

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. It was also influenced by Eiffel and Lisp.

A much simpler language with an elegance in OOP (object-oriented programming), Java does have some down sides, like slow JVMs dealing with large libraries. The language itself has some short comings ...

While most students pick up algorithmic approaches to programming fairly easily, many struggle to get their heads around the idea of object-orientation.