Ever since the invention of the computer, software development has been trending towards higher-level languages. From assembly language, to C, to C++, to Java, each step up has met with the same ...

Ruby Method Dispatch In order to do a method call in Ruby, a runtime simply looks at the target object’s class hierarchy, searches for the method from bottom to top, and upon finding it performs the ...

This article is excerpted from Ajax on Rails, copyright 2007 O’Reilly Media Inc., all rights reserved. Used with permission from O’Reilly Media Inc. Doing vanilla ...

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For the Ruby programming language, the update to version 3.4 brings a new keyword for block parameters with "it" and Prism as a new standard parser. The development team behind the dynamic and ...

When Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto created Ruby in the mid-1990s he did so with programmer productivity as a priority. The result was a powerful, flexible language with an elegant syntax that reads and ...