Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and LISP) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

He has often said that he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple,” in a way that mirrors life.

Building on this, he adds:

   Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body.

Rails

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. It was combined with Ruby to create a powerful desktop and web-based application development framework, known now as Ruby-on-Rails.

• Ruby-on-Rails: http://rubyonrails.org/
• Ruby on Rails guides: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

Resources

• Download Ruby: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
• The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub (Europe DevOps Summit 2021) https://videolibrary.doesvirtual.com/?video=550704376

Tutorials

• Making an HTTP/HTTPS POST request in Ruby, through a Proxy Server: http://srikanthjeeva.blogspot.ca/2012/08/making-httphttps-post-request-under.html
• Creating Powerful Command Line Tools in Ruby: https://blog.codeship.com/creating-powerful-command-line-tools-in-ruby/

External Links

• wikipedia: Ruby (programming language)
• wikipedia: JRuby
• wikipedia: Rails
• wikipedia: Ruby on Rails
• Rails: http://api.rubyonrails.org/
• HTTP GET and POST requests with Ruby: http://travisonrails.com/2007/11/07/http-get-and-post-requests-with-ruby