Ruby tutorial

last modified October 18, 2023

This is a Ruby tutorial. In this tutorial you will learn the Ruby language. The tutorial is suitable for beginners.

Table of contents

- [Ruby language](ruby/)

- [Lexical structure](lexis/)

- [Basics](basics/)

- [Variables](variables/)

- [Objects](objects/)

- [Data types](datatypes/)

- [Strings](strings/)

- [Expressions](expressions/)

- [Flow control](flowcontrol/)

- [Arrays](arrays/)

- [Hashes](hashes/)

- [OOP](oop/)

- [OOP II](oop2/)

- [Regular expressions](regex/)

- [Input & Output](io/)

Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language. The original author is a Japanese programmer Yukihiro Matsumoto. Ruby first appeared in 1995. Ruby supports various programming paradigms. This includes object orientation, reflection, imperative and reflective programming.

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Author

My name is Jan Bodnar, and I am a passionate programmer with extensive programming experience. I have been writing programming articles since 2007. To date, I have authored over 1,400 articles and 8 e-books. I possess more than ten years of experience in teaching programming.