Ruby

101 Mentors

Our mentors are friendly, experienced Ruby developers who will help teach you new techniques and tricks.

24,754 Students

Join thousands of students who have enjoyed learning and improving their skills by taking this track.

96 Exercises

Hundreds of hours have gone into making these exercises fun, useful, and challenging to help you enjoy learning.

About Ruby

class HelloWorld
  def self.hello(name = 'World')
    "Hello, #{name}!"
  end
end

Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

Ruby was created as a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

He has often said that he is "trying to make Ruby natural, not simple," in a way that mirrors life.

Building on this, he adds: "Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body."

You can read more about the Ruby language on its site.

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I loved the Ruby track

I loved the Ruby track (it is the only one I have finished so far). Solving over 80 different problems seems one of the most exciting ways to learn a language one barely knows. Improving my own solutions for readability and beauty rather than just passing the tests and performance taught me a little about Ruby and programming in general. I also liked comparing my solution to other ones - I could see the problem from other points of view.

Michał, Poland

Relaxed. Encouraging. Supportive.

Meet the Ruby Track mentors

Once you join the Ruby language track, you will receive support and feedback from our team of mentors. Here are the bios of a few of the mentors of this track.

Fun. Challenging. Interesting

Community-sourced Ruby exercises

These are a few of the 96 exercises on the Ruby track. You can see all the exercises here.

Passionate. Knowledgeable. Creative.

Meet the Ruby Track maintainers

The Ruby Maintainers are the brains behind the Ruby Track. They spend their spare time creating interesting and challenging exercises that we can all learn from. We are incredibly grateful for their hard work. Here are the bios of a few of the maintainers of this track.