Ruby
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About
Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented scripting language, created in the early-to-mid 1990's by Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto. Ruby is most often compared to the Perl scripting language, and like Perl, the language itself is oriented to text processing and systems management.
More Information
More information on Ruby can be found at the official web site (What is Ruby?).
See also the Ruby programming language article at wikipedia
License
Rails is dual-licensed under the terms of the Ruby License or the GPL.
Use in Extension
- Ruby is used heavily by the IT group of the National eXtension Initiative, in both systems scripting applications (places where Shell scripts or might be considered). Additionally, Ruby, combined with the Rails framework is used for almost all of the eXtension-developed web applications.
