Demystifying Ruby ♦️ (2/3): Objects, Objects everywhere

And a little bit of Metaprogramming

One of the most fundamental principles of Ruby is that everything in the language is an object. This object-oriented allows developers to think in terms of objects and their interactions rather than just functions and procedures.

In Ruby, every piece of data, whether it’s a number, string, array, or even a class itself, is treated as an object. This means that all these entities can have properties and behaviors, encapsulated within methods and attributes. Let’s explore this !

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Demystifying Ruby ♦️ (1/3): It's all about threads

Is Ruby a true parallel language ?!

Ruby is a dynamic, interpreted, open-source programming language known for its simplicity, productivity, and its “human-readable” syntax. Ruby is often used in web development, particularly with the Ruby on Rails framework. It supports object-oriented, functional, and imperative programming paradigms.

The most known and used Ruby Virtual Machine is the Matz Ruby Interpreter (aka CRuby), developed by Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz), the creator of Ruby. All other Ruby implementation such as JRuby, TruffleRuby and so on are out of the scope of this blog post.

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