Ruby on Rails - What is Ruby?

So, I am not just going to stop by providing the Ruby on Rails course structure.
I am here to start sharing the concepts what I understood about Ruby on Rails.
A gentle disclaimer, Nobody is perfect and in my attempt to become close to perfection I relied on world wide web to learn better and to understand the concepts clearly.

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Initially Some History about Ruby:

The language was created by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, who started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993, and released it to the public in 1995. "Ruby" was named as a gemstone because of a joke within Matsumoto's circle of friends alluding to Perl's name.

Some useful links that come handy when you are going through the course material:

Scripting Language : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language

Compiled Language : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiled_language

Compilers : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

Interpreters : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_%28computing%29

Object Oriented Programming : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented

Jargon to watch out:
Ruby, Interpreters, Compilers, Scripting Language, Compiled Language, Mixins, Operating System, Unix, Linux, Modules, Closures, Threads, Exceptions, Garbage Collectors,

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Ruby is "an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming".

Don’t be alarmed. We will take one by one:

Interpreted Scripting Language:

• Ability to make operating system calls directly
• Powerful string operations and regular expressions
• Immediate feedback during development
• Ruby programs can be executed from source code.(means to say need not be compiled)

Object Oriented Programming:

• Everything is an object
• Classes, inheritance, methods, etc.
• Singleton methods
• Mixin by module
• Iterators and closures

Portable:

• Runs on many different operating systems.
• Windows 95 through XP, Linux, UNIX...

Simple and Fast:

• Variable declarations are unnecessary (remember: everything is an object... including primitives)
• Variables are not typed
• Syntax is simple and consistent (like you are expressing something)
• Automatic memory allocation and garbage collection

More...

• Exception processing model
• Dynamic loading
• Threads

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