Seems I run into another weird-ass limitation on this server every day. You might remember I had trouble earlier executing anything at all. I fixed that. Then I had trouble writing to a directory for ...

The Ruby language has been around since 1995 and still gets regular releases. But the language has dropped to 30th place in this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity, with Python cited as a ...

While at GoGaRuCo this weekend, I finally made good on an experiment I had been thinking about for a while: a static compiler for Ruby. I thought I’d share it with you good people today. First we have ...

If you're confused by AppleScript, wish you could use something else to make OS X applications jump through hoops, or just aren't a fan of it for whatever reason (and I can think of a few), don't ...

Ruby, an interpreted programming language that looks and feels like a cross between Smalltalk and Perl, has been around for about ten years. Ruby has been gaining in popularity over the last few years ...

There was a time when TheServerSide.com was a site primarily focused on Java development, and for those wishing to do .NET development, there was TheServerSide.net as well. But the server-side ...