How does Ruby work? For my uses, very well.

I’m not a web programmer though.

I used ruby to lure catherine zeta jones into my unicorn petting zoo.

automagically!

Hi Rooscoe (which is roughly what your name transliterates to, I believe).

Ruby works by feeding it commands, getting back the results, and doing something else with those results.

It’s hard, though, to explain how Ruby works if we don’t understand what you don’t understand, and what you already know about programming.

Have you ever programmed before? If yes, with what and for how long?

If you’d like to start using Ruby immediately, interactively, go to your Terminal app and type in irb.

If you’re looking to go through a walkthrough tutorial, check out http://tryruby.hobix.com/. That’s a good introduction to learning Ruby.

Also, a lengthier, non-interactive but exceedingly funny and interesting introduction can be found at http://www.poignantguide.net/.

Hope this helps.

M.T.