Ruby is an Imperative
, Multi-Paradigm, Strongly and Dynamically Typed Programming Language.
It is most commonly used with the Rails framework to make dynamic webpages; this is combo is also known as Ruby on Rails.
You can try out Ruby for yourself here.
History
Ruby was released in 1995 on Japanese newsgroups by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. He wanted a truly OOP Programming language that was fully featured and easy to use.
Code Examples
Hello Ruby
puts "Hello World!"
This program outputs Hello World!
Variable Declaration and Concatenation
a = 10
b = 7
c = "Bob"
puts a+b
#Outputs 17
puts b+c
#Throws an Error
puts "Hello, "+c
#Outputs Hello, Bob
For Loops
for i in 0..9
puts i
end
Works Written in Ruby
Websites
- Github uses Ruby as one of its top languages.
- Shopify
- Kickstarter
- Hulu
- Twitch
- Yellow Pages