It is well known that Node.js can run locally on Windows and Linux. It interacts with a browser and you can create applications in JavaScript, running locally or remotely and use that with HTML 5 and ...

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The first beta for the 5.0 edition of the popular Web framework for Ruby is out, with WebSockets support as a major feature -- and with Ruby 2.2.2 as a requirement ...

Thanks to benefits such as developer familiarity with JavaScript, Node.js is displacing Ruby on Rails in some major installations. But the founder of Rails says he’s become bored with the discussion ...

Node.js became the most popular code repository on Github over the holiday weekend. With 11,460 watchers as of this writing, the Node repo now has more attention than Rails, which has 11,274 watchers.

Both Ruby and Node.js are gaining a lot of traction but for different reasons, and the ecosystem is a huge factor when comparing the two. That was one of the main points Brilliant.ly Will Nathan made ...