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 …

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

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.

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).

Dec 25, 2022 · Ruby was first developed by Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) in 1993, and is now developed as Open Source. It runs on multiple platforms and is used all over the world …

Mar 26, 2025 · Please see the GitHub releases for further details. This version is a final release of Ruby 3.1 series. We will not provide any further updates including security fixes for Ruby 3.1 …

May 14, 2025 · We intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 3.4) every two months following the most recent release. Following this release (3.4.4), Ruby 3.4.5 is …

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.

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