How does Ruby compare to C#/Java in terms of speed of development, quality of code and long-term maintainability? A broad question, I know, but my focus is on enterprise applications that might pull in from several large data sources and might be rather large. [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Jul 30, 2011 - 15 answers

How can I learn how to develop web apps? [more inside]
posted by modernserf on Jul 25, 2011 - 10 answers

What's with all the cheap rubies on ebay? [more inside]
posted by KathrynT on Apr 23, 2010 - 8 answers

Anybody know why I'd be having problems with Hackety Hack (the ruby tutorial)? Downloading works fine, but the forums and the shared programs are gone. [more inside]
posted by forforf on Feb 8, 2009 - 6 answers

Is there any way to stop spam protection on Instiki? [more inside]
posted by djgh on Feb 10, 2008 - 4 answers

What does the construct "?/" refer to in Ruby? [more inside]
posted by nakedcodemonkey on Jan 14, 2008 - 6 answers

Configured Readline with the prefix 'ur/local' on OSX. Then installed Ruby in /usr/local, but with Readline. Would like to put everything in the proper place without damaging anything, so what do I do now? [more inside]
posted by djgh on Jul 23, 2007 - 5 answers

How can I efficiently and elegantly calculate a rolling sum of count-of-events in a time period from a list of event times? [more inside]
posted by dmd on Jan 11, 2007 - 10 answers