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How To Write Your First Ruby Program

Updated on January 27, 2023
👁 How To Write Your First Ruby Program

Introduction

The “Hello, World!” program is a classic and time-honored tradition in computer programming. It’s a small and complete first program for beginners, and it’s a good way to make sure your environment is properly configured.

This tutorial will walk you through creating this program in Ruby. However, to make the program more interesting, you’ll modify the traditional “Hello, World” program so that it asks the user for their name. You’ll then use the name in the greeting. When you’re done with the tutorial, you’ll have a program that looks like this when you run it:

Output
Please enter your name. Sammy Hello, Sammy! I'm Ruby!

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Tutorial Series: How To Code in Ruby

Ruby is a popular object-oriented programming language. You can use Ruby to write anything from simple scripts to complex web applications. Open your favorite text editor and follow these tutorials to start exploring Ruby.

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This i svery similar to other interpreted languages lik PHP /Python

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