rdoc(1) ruby rdoc(1)NAMErdocSYNOPSIS
This executable is part of the package 'ruby': An Interpreted Object-
Oriented Scripting Language
Documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise is available online at:
<http://www.suse.com/documentation/sles11/> and also installed on the
system at /usr/share/doc/manual/
Additional documentation for a specific package may be available at
/usr/share/doc/packages/ruby/ ""
DESCRIPTION
Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-
oriented programming. It has many features for processing text files
and performing system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple,
straight-forward, and extensible.
* Ruby features:
- Simple Syntax
- *Normal* Object-Oriented features (class, method calls, for
example)
- *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(Mix-in, Singleton-method, for
example)
- Operator Overloading
- Exception Handling
- Iterators and Closures
- Garbage Collection
- Dynamic Loading of Object Files (on some architectures)
- Highly Portable (works on many UNIX machines; DOS, Windows, Mac,
BeOS, and more)
AUTHORS
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>
LICENSE
GPL v2 or later
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 2011-11-23 rdoc(1)