query: What is an object in Ruby?
passage: Restful Objects
Restful Objects is a standard covering RESTful interfaces to domain object models. The specification is published under a Creative Commons license.
passage: Lego Mindstorms NXT
ruby-nxt is a library to program the NXT for the Ruby programming language. Unlike the other languages for the NXT the code isn't compiled to a binary file. Instead the code is directly transmitted to the NXT via a Bluetooth connection. This method of execution is significantly slower than executing compiled code directly.