Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2

Data Types

While everything in Ruby is an object, some of the data types in Ruby have special syntax support, in particular for defining literal values. In the preceding examples, we used some simple strings and even string concatenation.

Strings

The previous example also showed some Ruby string objects. One way to create a string object is to use string literals, which are sequences of characters between single or double quotation marks. The difference between the two forms is the amount of processing Ruby does on the string while constructing the literal. In the single-quoted case, Ruby does very little. With only a few exceptions, what you type into the single-quoted string literal becomes the string’s value.

With double-quotes, Ruby does ...