See the Installation page for details on building Ruby from source. If you have an issue compiling Ruby, consider using one of the third party tools mentioned above.

Ruby Documentation Welcome to the official Ruby programming language documentation. Getting Started New to Ruby? Start with our Getting Started Guide. Core Classes and …

If you cannot compile your own Ruby, and you do not want to use a third-party tool, you can use your system’s package manager to install Ruby. Some members of the Ruby community feel …

Ruby Documentation Welcome to the official Ruby programming language documentation. Getting Started New to Ruby? Start with our Getting Started Guide. Core Classes and …

Like Smalltalk, everything in Ruby is an object, and Ruby has blocks, iterators, meta-classes and other good stuff. You can use Ruby to write servers, experiment with prototypes, and for …

Jul 15, 2025 · 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 …

Apr 18, 2025 · 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 …

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.

person = {name: 'Matz', language: 'Ruby'} person # => {name: "Matz", language: "Ruby"} You can use a hash to give names to method arguments:

Jul 24, 2025 · Ruby 3.3.9 has been released. This release includes the following security fix of default gems: CVE-2025-24294: Possible Denial of Service in resolv gem and the following …