Ruby, Easy Development.

Hi guys,
Everything under this article (here i have mentioned very few things) is absolutely true and exercised..... because I am new to this language and I learned it very fast that I learned other languages and there are more to cover too....

If you are having basic theoretical knowledge on 'Object Oriented' concepts you are most welcome to Ruby..., You won't take more than 2 days to learn basic of the Ruby language. You will realise it once you are there......

Have fun with Ruby.....,

Ruby;

Ruby is a Object Oriented Programming language which is created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz). He has often said that he is “trying to make Ruby natural, not simple,” in a way that mirrors life. It was first released on 1995. Since that growth of the Ruby language was unstoppable.

This marvelous, handy and artful language is absolutely free, not only free of charge but its free to use. You will feel like flying on the free sky when you develop applications with Ruby.

In Ruby, everything is an object. Even a primitive types like numbers in other languages. You have lots of methods on a number which you don't have in most of other OOP languages. Take a look at this;

5.times {print "We *love* Ruby -- it's outrageous!"}

In many languages, numbers and other primitive types are not objects. Ruby follows the influence of the Smalltalk language by giving methods and instance variables to all of its types.

Beyond the Basics;
Ruby has a wealth of other features, among which are the following:

• Ruby has exception handling features, like Java or Python, to make it easy to handle errors.

• Ruby features a true mark-and-sweep garbage collector for all Ruby objects. No need to maintain reference counts in extension libraries. As Matz says, “This is better for your health.”

• Writing C extensions in Ruby is easier than in Perl or Python, with a very elegant API for calling Ruby from C. This includes calls for embedding Ruby in software, for use as a scripting language. A SWIG interface is also available.

• Ruby can load extension libraries dynamically if an OS allows.

• Ruby features OS independent threading. Thus, for all platforms on which Ruby runs, you also have multi threading, regardless of if the OS supports it or not, even on MS-DOS!

• Ruby is highly portable: it is developed mostly on GNU/Linux, but works on many types of UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, DOS, BeOS, OS/2, etc.