Ruby has a simple and intuitive syntax that reads like natural language. By eliminating complex symbols and verbose constructs, Ruby's design philosophy allows you to express what you …

The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and some common functions and libraries.

See the Installation page for details on building Ruby from source. If you have an issue compiling Ruby, consider using one of the third party tools mentioned above.

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 comes with a program that will show the results of any Ruby statements you feed it. Playing with Ruby code in interactive sessions like this is a terrific way to learn the language.

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

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

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Dec 25, 2025 · 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 …