The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn Ruby. The goal is to learn the Ruby language, syntax, structure, and some common functions and libraries.

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

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.

As with most programming languages, Ruby leverages a wide set of third-party libraries. Nearly all of these libraries are released in the form of a gem, a packaged library or application that can …

Ruby code can raise exceptions. Most often, a raised exception is meant to alert the running program that an unusual (i.e., exceptional) situation has arisen, and may need to be handled.

See class Float for the constants that affect Ruby’s floating-point arithmetic. What’s Here Trigonometric Functions ::cos: Returns the cosine of the given argument. ::sin: Returns the …

Formats for Dates and Times Several Ruby time-related classes have instance method strftime, which returns a formatted string representing all or part of a date or time: Date#strftime. …

This system is hosting the development of Ruby language and its related projects. You must register your account and activate it via an email before reporting issues.

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 …

A Ruby URI::Generic object represents an internet URI. It provides, among others, methods scheme, hostname, path, query, and fragment. Schemes An internet URI has a scheme. The …