Ruby is a pure object-oriented programming language. It was created in 1993 by Yukihiro Matsumoto of Japan.

The name "Ruby" originated during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language.[13] Initially two names were proposed: "Coral" and "Ruby". Matsumoto chose the latter in a later e-mail to Ishitsuka.[14] Matsumoto later noted a factor in choosing the name "Ruby" – it was the birthstone of one of his colleagues

First publication: December 21, 1995

Ruby is designed for programmer productivity and fun

Ruby is an open-source and is freely available on the Web

Ruby is a general-purpose, interpreted programming language.

Ruby is a true object-oriented programming language.

Ruby is a server-side scripting language similar to Python and PERL.

Ruby can be embedded into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Ruby has similar syntax to that of many programming languages such as C++ and Perl.

Ruby is very much scalable and big programs written in Ruby are easily maintainable.

Ruby can be used for developing Internet and intranet applications.

Ruby can easily be connected to DB2, MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase.

Ruby has a rich set of built-in functions, which can be used directly into Ruby scripts.