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What Is Ruby?
Find out about Ruby's different flavors, the operating systems, the app servers, the databases, and more in this in-depth article Introduction to Ruby at Sun. Or for a quick look, just click here:
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NetBeans: The Best Tool for Ruby Developers
The NetBeans IDE is the best tool for programming in Ruby and JRuby, and for developing with the Ruby-on-Rails framework. It's free and open source. Download NetBeans here.
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Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the JVM that builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.
Grails is an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java web development. You can use Grails as a standalone development environment that hides all configuration details, or integrate your Java business logic with NetBeans.
Ruby was created by Japanese developer Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto and released in 1995. The language's creator says that Ruby is designed for programmer productivity and fun, following the principles of good user interface design.
Ruby on Rails is a package that provides a full-stack, open-source framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the model-view-control pattern. Created by David Heinemeier Hansson, Rails make Ruby development very easy and skyrocketed the popularity of the Ruby language.
