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

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).

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.

Apr 18, 2025 · 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 especially for web …

As with most programming languages, Ruby leverages a wide set of third-party libraries. Nearly all of these libraries are released in the form of a gem, a packaged library or application that can be …

person = {name:'Matz', language:'Ruby'} person# => {name: "Matz", language: "Ruby"}

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.

Miniruby is a version of Ruby which has no external dependencies and lacks certain features. It can be useful in Ruby development because it allows for faster build times.

Nov 17, 2025 · 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 especially for web …

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 series. We …