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You already know how to extend Ruby's built-in functionality by importing modules with the require statement. Although these extension modules are often written in Ruby, they can also be written in C ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of human ...

SWin and VRuby are the two primary components of the VisualuRuby project. SWin is a Ruby extension module, written in C, that exposes much of the Win32 API to the Ruby interpreter. VRuby is a library ...