Chapter 1. Interactive Ruby and the Ruby Environment
In Ruby, as in most programming languages, we’ll generally store programs in external files and execute them at once, as a unit. However, Ruby also gives you the option of typing the lines of a program one at a time and seeing the results as you go along, using Interactive Ruby (irb); irb is a shell, similar to bash in a Unix or Unix-like system or the command prompt in Windows. Using irb will give you a good idea of how Ruby processes information, and it should also help you gain an understanding of Ruby’s basics before you ever even write a program.
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