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The fifth batch of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course conducted by Satish Talim, starts 3rd May 2008.

Already over 4000+ people from across the
globe, have learned Ruby through this course

Registrations close on 2nd May 2008 - so hurry.

The third batch of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course conducted by Satish Talim, starts 7th January 2008.

Already 1560+ people have enrolled for the course from across the globe. Brazil leads the way with over 550 registrations and India in third place with over 125.

Registrations close on 6th January 2008 - so hurry.

David Black the author of Ruby for Rails talks to RubyLearning.com members and gives valuable insights to all the would-be Ruby and Rails developers. He talks about areas in Ruby that one should concentrate on and much more. Do read.

The Ruby programming language was released to the public in 1995 and gained widespread adoption in 2006. A multipurpose language that focuses on simplicity and productivity, it combines the best features of many compiled and interpreted languages, such as easy development of large programs, rapid prototyping, almost-real-time development, and compact code. Ruby is a reflective, dynamic, and interpreted object-oriented scripting language, and JRuby is a Java programming language implementation of the Ruby language syntax, core libraries, and standard libraries.

Siddharth Karandikar has come up with a site paahijen.com, which is basically about Applications in Indian Languages. Read his interview here.

Nag. B is the brain behind Startups.in. Startups.in simplifies the establishment of startups through a collaborative approach that is a win-win situation to all the involved members. I’ve invited Nag to share some of his experiences in this interview.

Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time from now. By leveraging Java the platform with the power of the Ruby programming language, programmers get the best from both worlds. You better not ignore JRuby any more!

Here's a partial list of companies in India working with Ruby on Rails.

The number of Ruby on Rails projects coming into India is growing exponentially. Till last year, it was mainly smaller companies who were executing these projects. However, the scenario has changed today with big players like IBM, Google, Thoughtworks, Persistent in the fray.

This has resulted in a growing need for Ruby and Ruby on Rails professionals. The Learning Ruby Job Board caters to the needs of companies looking to hire such professionals as well as professionals looking for such jobs.

I am writing a series of blog posts with respect to 'Setting Up An IT Company In India'. Would appreciate your constructive comments and suggestions.

IIMM a premier management institute located in Pune, is the first Institute in India to introduce Ruby and Rails for all their Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) courses, starting February 2007.

IIMM today is ranked as one amongst the top 15 B-Schools in the country (India).

I have just published an article that explains how one can do Socket Programming in Ruby.

I had been searching the internet for some information on Socket Programming in Ruby, but had not been successful. The article is a result of that. Do send me your feedback on how you found the article.

Yesterday my Learning Ruby site went live and it immediately got picked up by digg.com and del.isio.us. In one day, there were more than 8500+ unique hits.

The site is a free, web-based course in Ruby Programming, along with a live instructor.

Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, better known as “The JRuby Guys”, are joining Sun this month.

Dynamically-typed languages like Ruby are only beginning to be accepted in the software mainstream, and many of the best practices and tools remain to be invented. Sun would like to ensure that the Ruby programming language, in its JRuby form, is available to the community of Java developers. Also, there is a possibility that the Java platform may prove to be an attractive deployment option for existing Ruby applications in certain scenarios.

In the continuing series of interviews with Ruby gurus, we meet Topher Cyll today.