Regular readers of this column won't be surprised to hear that I love both Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. Rails has been my primary server-side Web development framework for about eight years, and it ...

I have been a programmer for a few years, mostly using PHP and various JavaScript frameworks, but have recently started to work with Ruby on Rails. This is not an "I have an idea, I need a programmer" ...

I've seen several blogs and comments in news stories recently that boil down to the observation that programmers gravitate either to Python or Ruby for scripting, but not both. I guess I'm the ...

If you want to build a Web application, you're going to need a few pieces of software. You'll need a server operating system, such as Linux. You'll also need a server-side language and framework.