Ruby is an object orientated programming language from Japan. It’s fairly easy to use and comes with the Rails framework.

I thought I’d give a try to check out Ruby.

You can download ruby here.

I’ve also downloaded Aptana for Ruby. Aptana is a very handy program for editing HTML, CSS and Javascript. You can also install plugins for it, like an extension for PHP and Ruby.

The hello world application.

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puts "Hello World";

However, you can also use ‘print’. Instead of puts. The difference is that puts adds a newline.