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Ruby is an open source programming language created in 1995 by Yukihiro Matsumoto.

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Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, object-oriented, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. According to its creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from Compiler Explorer:
# Type your code here, or load an example. def square(num) num * num end
Example from Riju:
puts "Hello, world!"
Example from hello-world:
#!/usr/bin/env ruby print "Hello World"
# Hello World in Ruby puts "Hello World!"
Example from Linguist:
module Foo end
Example from Wikipedia:
"Hello, World!".in_blue => "<span style=\"color: #00f\">Hello, World!</span>"
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Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Standard Library puts "Hello, World!"
Conditionals
Functions
While Loops
Case Sensitivity
Range Operator (3...6)
Line Comments # A comment #
Print() Debugging puts "Hi" puts
Operator Overloading
Multiline Strings
Mixins module A def a1 end def a2 end end module B def b1 end def b2 end end class Sample include A include B def s1 end end samp = Sample.new samp.a1 samp.a2 samp.b1
Iterators (0...42).each do |n| puts n end
File Imports load 'filename.rb' require 'filename' require 'trig.rb'
Directives coding: UTF-8
Here Document
Generators # Generator from an Enumerator object chars = Enumerator.new(['A', 'B', 'C', 'Z']) 4.times { puts chars.next } # Generator from a block count = Enumerator.new do |yielder| i = 0 loop { yielder.yield i += 1 } end 100.times { puts count.next }
Garbage Collection
MultiLine Comments =begin A comment. =end =begin =end
Comments # A comment
Classes # A tiny Person class in Ruby: class Person attr_accessor :name, :age, : # getter and setter methods def initialize(name, age) @name = name @age = age end end # Create a new Person object: person = Person.new("John", 30) puts person.name puts person.age # Change the age of the person: person.age = 35 puts person.age
Constants # Constants in Ruby being with a capital letter. Will throw a warning or error, depending on runtime settings. Name = "John" # Not a constant name = "John"
Exceptions def hello puts "Hello, World!" # start an exception handler begin raise "This is an exception" rescue => e puts "Exception caught: #{e}" end end hello
Assignment pldb = 80766866
Booleans true false
Integers pldb = 80766866
Duck Typing
Regular Expression Syntax Sugar puts "Hello World".match(/\w/)
Strings "hello world" "
Case Insensitive Identifiers X
Semantic Indentation X
Async Await X
Function Overloading X
Dispose Blocks Pattern X
Dependent types X
Enums X
Variable Substitution Syntax X
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