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I'm a total newbie with Ruby, but I thought I'd use it to try and reclaim the data from my ancient PHP based photo site. That site used PHP serialization to store data in the filesystem like this: ...

The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

Rust, the Mozilla-developed language that recently hit 1.0, emphasizes safety, a potentially large selling point for a language designed for systems-level programming. But what does it mean to say ...