Ruby Documentation Welcome to the official Ruby programming language documentation. Getting Started New to Ruby? Start with our Getting Started Guide. Core Classes and …

Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle “Matz” in this document and on the mailing lists).

Identical regexp can or cannot run in linear time depending on your ruby binary. Neither forward nor backward compatibility is guaranteed about the return value of this method.

Operators In Ruby, operators such as +, are defined as methods on the class. Literals define their methods within the lower level, C language. String class, for example. Ruby objects can define …

Ruby user groups are entirely devoted to Ruby. They typically feature monthly meetings, a mailing list, a website, and if you’re lucky, frequent hacking sessions (meetings devoted to giving …

Dec 25, 2022 · Ruby was first developed by Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) in 1993, and is now developed as Open Source. It runs on multiple platforms and is used all over the world …

One of the areas of software development where Ruby really shines is web development. From creating a simple website to a full cloud based webservice, it is all easily attainable.

Ruby’s grammar differentiates between statements and expressions. All expressions are statements (an expression is a type of statement), but not all statements are expressions.

person = {name:'Matz', language:'Ruby'} person# => {name: "Matz", language: "Ruby"}

Symbol Literals A Symbol represents a name inside the ruby interpreter. See Symbol for more details on what symbols are and when ruby creates them internally. You may reference a …