{"id":20778,"date":"2014-12-30T05:34:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=20778"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:44:53","slug":"ruby-a-programmers-best-friend-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/ruby-a-programmers-best-friend-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby: A Programmer&#8217;s Best Friend Indeed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-a-programmers-best-friend-indeed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20821\" alt=\"ruby-a-programmers-best-friend-indeed\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ruby-a-programmers-best-friend-indeed.png\" width=\"196\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>700<\/strong> programming languages in the world!!!That list doesn&#8217;t include BASIC dialects nor esoteric programming languages(programming languages designed to test the boundaries of a computer language design,as a proof of concept,a software art or as a joke!)<\/p>\n<p>So why <strong>Ruby<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s simple,direct and can be learned in 20 minutes!No really!<\/p>\n<p>Ruby was developed way back in 1994 by\u00a0<b>Yukihiro Matsumoto <\/b>taking inspiration from various languages like Smalltalk,Eiffel,Ada and Lisp.It mirrors multiple programming structures i.e. object oriented,functional and imperative among others.It has a dynamic system and supports automatic memory management.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby can be a good choice when you&#8217;re just starting to code.<\/p>\n<p>Lets look at an example:<\/p>\n<p>If you take \u00a0an example of a program of printing &#8220;Hello World&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>In C:<\/p>\n<p><strong>#include&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>main()<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>{<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>printf(&#8220;Hello World&#8221;);<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>}<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Ruby:<\/p>\n<p><strong>print &#8220;Hello World&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You dont need to know a couple of complex functions to write a simple program.When you&#8217;re just starting to code a high level programming language like Ruby is a great way to start<\/p>\n<p>Ruby is a stepping stone to implementing on Rails framework to develop web applications.<strong>Rails<\/strong>\u00a0is a framework for creating web applications.Learning Ruby is a prerequisite to learning\u00a0<strong>Ruby on Rails<\/strong>. You\u2019ll be one step closer to creating web applications like Twitter, Yellow Pages, Hulu, or Groupon.<\/p>\n<p>Ruby has a large and useful ecosystem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\"><span>\u00a0It has existing code(Ruby on Rails,chef) you can use for implementations when needed.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Ruby even has its own system to manage frameworks and libraries, called RubyGems. There are currently over 60,000 libraries to choose from!<\/li>\n<li>It has a huge documentation.Documentation is the first thing you turn to when you need to learn things like connecting to a database etc.<\/li>\n<li>There are a large number of learning resources to choose from.<\/li>\n<li>Stuck on a piece of code? Need instant help? Theres the Ruby Community! There are hundreds of people to help you out!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see Ruby is a great language to start with or if you&#8217;re looking for a change!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HAPPY CODING!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/information-technology\">Click here for government certification in Information Technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 700 programming languages in the world!!!That list doesn&#8217;t include BASIC dialects nor esoteric programming languages(programming languages designed to test the boundaries of a computer language design,as a proof of concept,a software art or as a joke!) So why Ruby? Because it&#8217;s simple,direct and can be learned in 20 minutes!No really! 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