According to RubyGems Wiki - RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them. The gem command is used to build, upload, download, and install Gem packages. Gem ...
I know the question was talking about Ruby, but I think you meant rails (which is what it was tagged as). Rails is a web framework that uses the ruby programming language.
As Matz delineates in his book, 'The Ruby Programming Language', constant lookup has multiple steps. First, it searches a constant in the lexical scope where the constant is referenced. If it does not find the constant within the lexical scope, it then searches the inheritance hierarchy.
62 Whether a language is or is not a functional language is unimportant. Functional Programming is a thesis, best explained by Philip Wadler (The Essence of Functional Programming) and John Hughes (Why Functional Programming Matters). A meaningful question is, 'How amenable is Ruby to achieving the thesis of functional programming?'
So is Ruby interpreted or compiled? Neither term is meaningful unless you define it ;) But back to the question: "Scripting language" isn't a property of the language either, it depends on how the language is used - namely, whether the language is used for scripting tasks.
57 One difference is that .nil? and .empty? are methods that are provided by the programming language Ruby, whereas .blank? is something added by the web development framework Rails.
I've been trying to learn Ruby programming language from the tutorial of freecodecamp but found out that Atom is basically dead. So I decided to use VSCode, everything goes well until I get to the ...
The most important point I want to make is that if you want to look at existing work in scripting languages and shells, you shouldn't stop at Unix and the Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP family. For example, Tcl was already mentioned. Rexx would be another scripting language. Emacs Lisp would be yet another.
Ruby provides the glue and the business logic. What are your options as a Ruby programmer if you want to deal with this "slowness"? Switch to a faster language. But that carries a cost. It is a cost that may be worth it.
84 Many programming languages, especially those derived from C, have support for the so-called Switch Fallthrough. I was searching for the best way to do the same in Ruby and thought it might be useful to others: In C-like languages fallthrough typically looks like this:
