When it comes to developing business web applications, companies are faced with a tough decision. There are a variety of development platforms or programs to choose from including Java, Python, and ...

Rhomobile has announced the official 1.0 release of Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for mobile application development that supports all of the mainstream smartphone operating systems. The ...

What Engine Yard is, in effect, taking Ruby a step beyond application development. These new tools tackle tougher issues like deployment, maintenance, scalability, uptime and performance -- skills ...

On demand CRM software vendor Salesforce.com is to acquire application platform start-up Heroku for $212 million. US-based Heroku sells a platform-as-a-service offering that allows independent ...

Sun Microsystems has added Ruby support to the NetBeans IDE and bolstered the JRuby platform as well, company officials acknowledged on Thursday. The early-access release of the NetBeans Ruby Pack is ...