{"id":4574,"date":"2020-09-27T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T00:17:59","slug":"what-is-ruby-used-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-used-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ruby Programming Used For?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>You don\u2019t have to spend much time researching programming languages to hear about Ruby programming and its popular web framework, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-on-rails\/\"><em>Ruby on Rails<\/em><\/a><em>. Huge swathes of the Internet are built with Ruby programming language, as are many other applications.&nbsp;But what is the Ruby programming language, and <\/em><strong><em>what is Ruby programming used for<\/em><\/strong><em>? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e44464090a4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e44464090a4\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-used-for\/#what-is-the-ruby-programming-language\" >What Is the Ruby Programming Language?&nbsp;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-used-for\/#how-does-ruby-compare-to-other-coding-languages\" >How Does Ruby Compare to Other Coding Languages?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-used-for\/#what-is-ruby-programming-used-for\" >What Is Ruby Programming Used For?&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-is-ruby-used-for\/#where-can-i-learn-ruby-programming\" >Where Can I Learn Ruby Programming?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-the-ruby-programming-language\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-is-the-ruby-programming-language\"><\/span><strong>What Is the Ruby Programming Language?&nbsp;<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Ruby_logo.png\" alt=\"ruby programming logo\" class=\"wp-image-7358\"\/><figcaption>Ruby is a robust, dynamically typed, and object-oriented language.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruby is a scripting language built from the ground up for use in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/backend-vs-front-end-development\/\">front end and back end web development<\/a>&nbsp;and similar applications. It is a robust, dynamically typed, and object-oriented language. What&#8217;s more, its syntax is so high-level and easy to understand that it\u2019s considered as close as you can get to coding in English.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than one person has commented that they could basically understand Ruby code even without knowing how to program!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Released in the 1990s, Ruby is an open-sourced language created by the Japanese programmer Yukihiro &#8220;Matz&#8221; Matsumoto. He has stated that the language is designed to be both fun and productive. Ruby is scripted, meaning that it\u2019s an interpreted language rather than a compiled one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-does-ruby-compare-to-other-coding-languages\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how-does-ruby-compare-to-other-coding-languages\"><\/span><strong>How Does Ruby Compare to Other Coding Languages?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It helps to compare Ruby to other languages, to see how it\u2019s similar and different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/careerkarma.com\/blog\/what-python-is-used-for\/\">Python<\/a> is a programming language that focuses on having a single, unambiguous solution to every problem. Ruby projects, by contrast, want to have many valid approaches to problem-solving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. Some other differences include how strings are mutable in Ruby but not in Python, and Ruby only has one kind of list container. 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