Overview Of Ruby Language

Ruby was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto, or "Matz", in Japan in the mid 1990's. It was designed for programmer productivity with the idea that programming should be fun for programmers. It emphasizes the necessity for software to be understood by humans first and computers second.

Ruby continues to gain popularity for its use in web application development. The Ruby on Rails framework, built with the Ruby language by David Heinemeier Hansson, introduced many people to the joys of programming in Ruby. Ruby has a vibrant community that is supportive for beginners and enthusiastic about producing high-quality code.

Ruby is "A Programmer's Best Friend".

Features of Ruby

• Ruby is an open-source and is freely available on the Web.
• Ruby is a general-purpose, interpreted programming language.
• Ruby is a true object-oriented programming language.
• Ruby is a server-side scripting language similar to Python and PERL.
• Ruby can be embedded into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
• Ruby has a clean and easy syntax that allows a new developer to learn Ruby very quickly and easily.
• Ruby has similar syntax to that of many programming languages such as C++ and Perl.
• Ruby is very much scalable and big programs written in Ruby are easily maintainable.
• Ruby can be used for developing Internet applications.
• Ruby can be installed in Linux,Windows environments.
• Ruby can easily be connected to Sqlite, MySQL, Oracle.
• Ruby has a rich set of built-in functions, which can be used directly into Ruby scripts.