Interesting facts about Ruby Programming Language Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025 Suggest changes Share Like Article Like Report Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, dynamic, general-purpose, open source programming language which focuses on simplicity and productivity. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro Matsumoto (also known as Matz in the Ruby community) in Japan. Here are some interesting facts about Ruby: Ruby came into existence as Yukihiro Matsumoto, wanted a scripting language more powerful than Perl, and more object oriented than Python. The name Ruby for the language got originated in an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993 before even any code was written in the language. Initially two names were suggested ie Coral or Ruby. The name Ruby was later chosen by Matsumoto in an email to Ishitsuka. Ruby is often confused with Ruby on Rails, which is a server-side framework written in Ruby under the MIT License for implementing web applications. Ruby's libraries and packages are managed through central library management system called Rubygems. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, such as procedural programming, object-oriented programming, as well as functional programming, which makes it unique in the programming world. Ruby Interpreter (Interactive Ruby/irb) can be used as a calculator. Ruby has built in support for Rational numbers and Complex numbers, which helps in solving complex mathematical problems. Ruby allows code embedding. For example, Ruby can be embedded into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Ruby users can take the advantage of Dynamic typing and Duck typing. Ruby understands and uses "nil" instead of "null". S shubhamr238 Follow Article Tags : Ruby Ruby-Methods Explore Ruby Programming Language 4 min read OverviewRuby For Beginners 3 min read Ruby Programming Language (Introduction) 4 min read Comparison of Java with Other Programming Languages 4 min read Similarities and Differences between Ruby and C language 3 min read Similarities and Differences between Ruby and C++ 3 min read Environment Setup in Ruby 3 min read How to install Ruby on Linux? 2 min read How to install Ruby on Windows? 2 min read Interesting facts about Ruby Programming Language 2 min read BasicsRuby | Keywords 4 min read Ruby | Data Types 3 min read Ruby Basic Syntax 3 min read Hello World in Ruby 2 min read Ruby | Types of Variables 4 min read Global Variable in Ruby 2 min read Comments in Ruby 2 min read Ruby | Ranges 4 min read Ruby Literals 4 min read Ruby Directories 5 min read Ruby | Operators 11 min read Operator Precedence in Ruby 2 min read Operator Overloading in Ruby 5 min read Ruby | Pre-define Variables & Constants 5 min read Ruby | unless Statement and unless Modifier 2 min read Control StatementsRuby | Decision Making (if, if-else, if-else-if, ternary) | Set - 1 3 min read Ruby | Loops (for, while, do..while, until) 5 min read Ruby | Case Statement 3 min read Ruby | Control Flow Alteration 7 min read Ruby Break and Next Statement 2 min read Ruby redo and retry Statement 2 min read BEGIN and END Blocks In Ruby 2 min read File Handling in Ruby 4 min read MethodsRuby | Methods 3 min read Method Visibility in Ruby 3 min read Recursion in Ruby 4 min read Ruby Hook Methods 5 min read Ruby | Range Class Methods 5 min read The Initialize Method in Ruby 2 min read Ruby | Method overriding 2 min read Ruby Date and Time 3 min read OOP ConceptsObject-Oriented Programming in Ruby | Set 1 9 min read Object Oriented Programming in Ruby | Set-2 8 min read Ruby | Class & Object 4 min read Private Classes in Ruby 3 min read Freezing Objects | Ruby 2 min read Ruby | Inheritance 4 min read Polymorphism in Ruby 3 min read Ruby | Constructors 2 min read Ruby | Access Control 8 min read Ruby | Encapsulation 2 min read Ruby Mixins 3 min read Instance Variables in Ruby 3 min read Data Abstraction in Ruby 3 min read Ruby Static Members 3 min read ExceptionsRuby | Exceptions 4 min read Ruby | Exception handling 6 min read Catch and Throw Exception In Ruby 3 min read Raising Exceptions in Ruby 4 min read Ruby | Exception Handling in Threads | Set - 1 2 min read Ruby | Exception Class and its Methods 3 min read Ruby RegexRuby | Regular Expressions 3 min read Ruby Search and Replace 2 min read Ruby ClassesRuby | Float Class 7 min read Ruby | Integer Class 3 min read Ruby | Symbol Class 5 min read Ruby | Struct Class 5 min read Ruby | Dir Class and its methods 3 min read Ruby | MatchData Class 4 min read Ruby ModuleRuby | Module 4 min read Ruby | Comparable Module 3 min read Ruby | Math Module 4 min read Include v/s Extend in Ruby 2 min read My Profile ${profileImgHtml} My Profile Edit Profile My Courses Join Community Transactions Logout Like