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

If you cannot compile your own Ruby, and you do not want to use a third-party tool, you can use your system’s package manager to install Ruby. Some members of the Ruby community feel …

Identical regexp can or cannot run in linear time depending on your ruby binary. Neither forward nor backward compatibility is guaranteed about the return value of this method.

Jul 15, 2025 · We intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 3.4) every two months following the most recent release. Ruby 3.4.6 is scheduled for September, 3.4.7 for …

Much of the syntax is familiar to users of Perl, Python, and Java (among other languages), so if you’ve used those, learning Ruby will be a piece of cake. This document contains two major …

Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle “Matz” in this document and on the mailing lists).

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 …

person = {name: 'Matz', language: 'Ruby'} person # => {name: "Matz", language: "Ruby"} You can use a hash to give names to method arguments:

Ruby’s grammar differentiates between statements and expressions. All expressions are statements (an expression is a type of statement), but not all statements are expressions.