Ruby is an interpreted, high level, general purpose language.It supports different paradigms like functional procedural and object-oriented.
From the official website, it is stated that Ruby is, "a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write." Ruby on Rails on the other hand is a full stack web development framework.
Packages (programs and libraries) are referred to as gems in Ruby. RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby.Some implementations include GoRuby, Topaz, Opal, mruby and JRuby.
I would like to share this quote from the creator of the language. He built a language to suit his needs and this was part of it.
Ruby is a pure object oriented language. Everything is an object. Even a class is an object.
Some programming constructs that are supported by Ruby include mixin, open classes, meta programming, duck typing, YAML, automatic returns.
Features of Ruby lend itself to high quality coding.The redo keyword caught my attention as interesting. Redo, next and retry can be used to control loops.
Finally, I would like to share this useful tutorial I found
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