Ruby (programming language)
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Not to be confused with Ruby on Rails.
Ruby is the name of a programming language that was created in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan. Like other programming languages, such as Python, its structure (the way it works) is very similar to the English language. It has these qualities:
- Terse. Short, but still easy to understand.
- Dynamic. Easy to change, anytime and anywhere.
- Duck typing. If you think you understand it, you probably understand it.
Quick Facts Paradigm, Designed by ...
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| Paradigm | multi-paradigm: object-oriented, imperative, functional, reflective |
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| Designed by | Yukihiro Matsumoto |
| Developer | Yukihiro Matsumoto, et al. |
| First appeared | 1995 |
| Stable release | 3.3.1[1]  / 23 April 2024; 1 day ago (23 April 2024) |
| Typing discipline | duck, dynamic |
| Scope | lexical, sometimes dynamic |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| License | Ruby License or BSD License[2][3] |
| Filename extensions | .rb, .rbw |
| Website | www |
| Major implementations | |
| Ruby MRI, YARV, Rubinius, MagLev, JRuby, MacRuby, RubyMotion, HotRuby, IronRuby, mruby | |
| Influenced by | |
| Ada,[4] C++,[4] CLU,[5] Dylan,[5] Eiffel,[4] Lisp,[5] Perl,[5] Python,[5] Smalltalk[5] | |
| Influenced | |
| D,[6] Elixir, Falcon, Fancy,[7] Groovy, Ioke,[8] Mirah, Nu,[9] Reia, Crystal | |
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Many programmers like it because the creator tried to make it easy and nice to use.[10]
Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a web application framework that is implemented using the Ruby language.[11]