The Ruby on Rails revolution has been led by developers. Convincing management takes another kind of persuasion. A manager needs to understand the risks of adopting Ruby, the risks of snubbing ...

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Java and Ruby are both open source languages ranked in the top 20 of the TIOBE index for most popular programming languages, at spots 2 and 13, respectively, for June 2020. If you want to learn a new ...

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 ...

Charles Nutter remembers when, working as a Java architect, he attended a conference and saw the Ruby programming language for the first time. And he was blown away. “I was just stunned that I ...

Jeff Cohen‘s blog post Ruby 101: Naming Conventions does a nice job of covering conventions associated with the Ruby programming language. I like how he specifically writes to Java developers and .NET ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

For #4699, we removed the automatic initCause call for Java exceptions raised from Ruby. There were a few issues with that logic: Java does not automatically set cause for you, so there seemed to be a ...

All the Java blocking abstraction implementations had to be rolled back because the java threading is not compatible with ruby threading. E.g. a thread blocked by java CountDownLatch implementation ...