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- Is Ruby a scripting language or an interpreted language?
So is Ruby interpreted or compiled? Neither term is meaningful unless you define it ;) But back to the question: "Scripting language" isn't a property of the language either, it depends on how the language is used - namely, whether the language is used for scripting tasks
- syntax - What is Rubys double-colon `::`? - Stack Overflow
As Matz delineates in his book, 'The Ruby Programming Language', constant lookup has multiple steps First, it searches a constant in the lexical scope where the constant is referenced If it does not find the constant within the lexical scope, it then searches the inheritance hierarchy
- rubygems - What is a Ruby gem? - Stack Overflow
39 According to RubyGems Wiki - RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them
- What does it mean for a programming language to be on rails?
To address your confusion with the metaphor (though it has been answered in other words under your question): Groovy is to Grails as Ruby is to Ruby on Rails, but what does that mean? Grails was a web framework built on with the Groovy programming language to do the same thing for Groovy that Rails (a web framework for Ruby) does for Ruby
- How do I create a ruby Hello world? - Stack Overflow
I know the question was talking about Ruby, but I think you meant rails (which is what it was tagged as) Rails is a web framework that uses the ruby programming language
- Ruby: client-side or server-side? - Stack Overflow
Ruby is an all-purpose script programming language which can be executed on both client and server environments As client-side, you can use it to create a GUI application (or CLI one) to interact with data, communicate with a server, play with media game, etc Some framework examples on this level would beShoes, MacRuby, etc As server-side, you can use it to store and save data, validate and
- Whats a good place to learn Ruby? What is it primarily used for?
As to what ruby is used for: I suspect it's most often used for web programming And second most often as a scripting language for system administration, log file processing, web scraping etc
- What does @@variable mean in Ruby? - Stack Overflow
What are Ruby variables preceded with double at signs (@@)? My understanding of a variable preceded with an at sign is that it is an instance variable, like this in PHP: PHP version class Person
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