getting_started.md

Introduction

• Ruby is a pure object-oriented language.

• Ruby is dynamic, elegant syntax, simplicity and productivity.

• Yukihiro Matsumoto known as “Matz” is the creator of Ruby.

• Philosophy for the design of Ruby:

  Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.

Installation

• Ubuntu
• Mac OS

Running Ruby

• irb (Interactive Ruby Shell): is a tool to interactively execute Ruby code
• From Files: From the command line, type the following command to excuse the Ruby code from demo.rb file:

ruby demo.rb

Official Documents

• https://www.ruby-lang.org
• http://ruby-doc.org