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Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language oftenused for web development. It also offers many scripting featuresto process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks.It is simple, straightforward, and extensible.

• Simple Syntax
• Normal Object-oriented Features (e.g. class, method calls)
• Advanced Object-oriented Features (e.g. mix-in, singleton-method)
• Operator Overloading
• Exception Handling
• Iterators and Closures
• Garbage Collection
• Dynamic Loading of Object Files (on some architectures)
• Highly Portable (works on many Unix-like/POSIX compatible platforms aswell as Windows, macOS, etc.) cf.https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/maintainers_md.html#label-Platform+Maintainers

For a complete list of ways to install Ruby, including using third-party toolslike rvm, see:

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

You can download release packages and the snapshot of the repository. If you want todownload whole versions of Ruby, please visithttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/.

The mirror of the Ruby source tree can be checked out with the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git

There are some other branches under development. Try the following commandto see the list of branches:

$ git ls-remote https://github.com/ruby/ruby.git

You may also want to usehttps://git.ruby-lang.org/ruby.git (actual master of Ruby source)if you are a committer.

SeeBuilding Ruby

https://www.ruby-lang.org/

• English
• Japanese

There is a mailing list to discuss Ruby. To subscribe to this list, pleasesend the following phrase:

join

in the mail subject (not body) to the addressruby-talk-request@ml.ruby-lang.org.

See the file COPYING.

Questions about the Ruby language can be asked on theRuby-Talk mailing listor on websites likehttps://stackoverflow.com.

Bugs should be reported athttps://bugs.ruby-lang.org. Read"Reporting Issues" for more information.

See"Contributing to Ruby", which includes setup and build instructions.

Ruby was originally designed and developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz) in 1995.

matz@ruby-lang.org