Over the past few years, Ruby has become a popular programming language with some thanks to Rails.
I’m a big fan of and have recently been writing more and more small utilities in the language. I wouldn’t consider myself an evangelist, but I think Ruby is really worth trying.
The cool thing is that you don’t even have to install anything – you can try it out right in your browser…
TryRuby.org provides a web-based interface to the Ruby interpreter so you can test try the language and the library without having to download, install, and setup the environment.
One of my favorite features is that you’re not left to navigate the language on your own. The site provides an interactive tutorial that takes you through the basics:
The Ruby website also provides a 20-minute quick start guide that will work with TryRuby.
You might also want to check out the API documentation to see what all is built-in to the language.
It’s getting hard to avoid at least playing with a new language these days, huh?
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