Ruby Overview

Ruby is a pure object oriented programming language. It was created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto of Japan.

You can find the name Yukihiro Matsumoto on the Ruby mailing list at www.ruby-lang.org. Matsumoto is also known as Matz in the Ruby community.

Ruby is "A Programmer's Best Friend".

Ruby has features that are similar to those of Smalltalk, Perl, and Python. Perl, Python, and Smalltalk are scripting languages.

Ruby - Beginning Programming

Ruby is a scripting language designed by Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as Matz. It runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX.

Before you start doing practice with various types of examples given in this section, I'm making an assumption that you are already aware about what is a computer program and what is a computer programming language.

For most of the examples given in this section, you  should try it, so just make use of it and enjoy your learning.