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About Ruby
Ruby, as a language, has a few different implementations. This page has been discussing the reference implementation, in the community often referred to as MRI (“Matz’s Ruby Interpreter”) or CRuby (since it is written in C), but there are also others.
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index - Documentation for Ruby 4.0
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 essential classes and modules: String - Text manipulation and string utilities. Symbol - Named identifiers inside the Ruby interpreter.
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index - Documentation for Ruby 3.4
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 essential classes and modules: String - Text manipulation and string utilities. Symbol - Named identifiers inside the Ruby interpreter.
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Ruby Releases
This is a list of Ruby releases. The shown dates correspond to the publication dates of the English versions of release posts and may differ from the actual creation dates of the source tarballs.
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Official Ruby FAQ
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).
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Ruby 3.5.0 preview1 Released
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 development.
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class Regexp - Documentation for Ruby 4.0
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.
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Ruby 3.4.5 Released - Ruby Programming Language
We intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 3.4) every two months following the most recent release. Ruby 3.4.6 is scheduled for September, 3.4.7 for November, and 3.4.8 for January.
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class String - Documentation for Ruby 4.0
In the simplest case, the dumped string contains the original string, enclosed in double-quotes; this example is done in irb (interactive Ruby), which uses method ‘inspect` to render the results:
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operators - Documentation for Ruby 4.0
Operators In Ruby, operators such as +, are defined as methods on the class. Literals define their methods within the lower level, C language. String class, for example. Ruby objects can define or overload their own implementation for most operators. Here is an example: