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 ...

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 ...

Run Ruby code from a file Log output to the terminal Run Ruby code from IRB Run RSpec tests in Ruby puts is a built-in Ruby method that will output a string of text to the terminal. It's the Ruby ...

This article is excerpted from Rails for Java Developers, by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland, with permission of The Pragmatic Programmers. All rights reserved ...

A set of Ruby methods that can help search for elements on a webpage. The ruby method will take in: the watir browser, element tag name, element text/name/value (on the page) and/or the index. It uses ...