Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language. Originating in Japan in the mid 1990s, Ruby was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto and combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like object-oriented features.
Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms (including functional, object oriented and imperative), and features a dynamic type system and automatic […]

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The following code defines a class named Person. In addition to ‘initialize’, the usual constructor to create new objects, it has two methods: one to override the <=> comparison operator (so Array#sort can sort by age) and the other to override the to_s method (so Kernel#puts can format its output). Here, “attr_reader” is an example […]

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a = “\nThis is a double quoted string\n”
a = %Q{\nThis is a double quoted string\n}
a = <<BLOCK
This is a multi-line double quoted string
BLOCK
a = %/\nThis is a double quoted string\n/

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Ruby code runs slower than many compiled languages (as is typical for interpreted languages) and other major scripting languages such as Python and Perl. However, in future releases (current revision: 1.9), Ruby will be bytecode compiled to be executed on YARV (Yet Another Ruby VM). Ruby’s current memory footprint for the same operations is higher […]

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Some features which differ notably from languages such as C or Perl:
Names which begin with a capital letter are treated as constants, so local variables should begin with a lowercase letter.
The sigils $ and @ do not indicate variable data type as in Perl, but rather function as scope resolution operators.
To denote floating point numbers, […]

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The syntax of Ruby is broadly similar to Perl and Python. Class and method definitions are signaled by keywords. In contrast to Perl, variables are not obligatorily prefixed with a sigil. When used, the sigil changes the semantics of scope of the variable. The most striking difference from C and Perl is that keywords are […]

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Ruby is object oriented: every data type is an object, including classes and types which many other languages designate as primitives (such as integers, booleans, and “nil”). Every function is a method. Named values (variables) always designate references to objects, not the objects themselves. Ruby supports inheritance with dynamic dispatch, mixins and singleton methods (belonging […]

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The language was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, who started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993, and released it to the public in 1995. “Ruby” was named as a gemstone because of a joke within Matsumoto’s circle of friends alluding to the name of the Perl programming language .
As of December 2007, the latest stable […]

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