Ruby Tutorial

Ruby is an open-source, object-oriented programming, server-side scripting language designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ) of Japan. In the Ruby community, Matsumoto is also known as Matz. Ruby runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, MAC OS, and various versions of UNIX.

After studying this tutorial, you will have a comprehensive understanding of Ruby.

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Who is this tutorial for?

This tutorial helps beginners understand the basics and fundamental concepts of the Ruby language.

What you need to know before reading this tutorial:

Before you start practicing the examples provided in this tutorial, it is best to have a basic understanding of computer programs and computer programming languages, which will help you learn this tutorial.

Compile/Execute Ruby Programs

For most programming languages, the first introductory example is "Hello World!". The following example uses Ruby to output "Hello World!":

Click the "Run Example" button to view the online example output.

Or in the irb interactive command line mode:

>>puts "Hello, world!"
Hello, world!
=> nil